Fabulous history of the power of individuals working together with others to defend their rights against a tyrannical government. The internal civil war continued for a decade more and could have resulted in in the collapse of the colonial democratic system if loyalists and traitors like Benedict Arnold had been successful. That chapter is often left out of history books and glossed over in service to the American myth that the colonists cooperated to achieve the great cause of independence.
Sadly we have always had a portion of the population who support authoritarian rule by, for, and of elites.