Ri-chard Loc: 23322

I believe what I see and experience - the oceans and horizons are flat.

You believe what you are told - the Americans won the Revolutionary War/War of Independance even though there is documented proof they lost and what they lost...

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Your eyes have deceived you.

In my experience on the sea and in the air, the oceans and horizons are curved.
At 6 feet above sea level, the visible distance to the horizon is just under 3 miles.
At 150 feet, the average height of a ship's mast, the visible distance is 14.9 miles.
At 1 mile above the surface of the sea, you can see 89 miles.

SeaLass Loc: Western Soviet Socialist Republics

So the British wanted to get rid of the quarreling, insulant, bellicose colonies, but needed to fight a 7 year war to prove they were still the CMF-in-charge. After Washington surrendered to Cornwall at Yorktown the British were finally able to send all their soldiers and government officials home and leave the colonies to their own devices. Now I get it!

If I may ask, was it U. S. Grant who surrendered to R. E. Lee at Appomattox in 1865, it's another point I often get confused on.