| The complex situation of Catholicism in Great Britain had results in their Colonies. |
Situația complexă a Catolicismului în Marea Britanie a avut influență asupra coloniilor sale. |
| At the time of the American revolution, Catholics formed approximately 1.6% of the total American population of the original 13 colonies. |
În timpurile Revoluției americane, Catolicismul constituia aproximativ 1,6% din toată populația celor 13 colonii din America. |
| If Catholics were seen as potential enemies of the British state, Irish Catholics, subject to British rule, were doubly-damned. |
Dacă catolicii ar fi fost văzuți ca potenționalii dușmani ai statelor Britanice, Catolicismul irlandez, sub rezerva reglementării britanice, era de dublu blestemată. |
| In Ireland they had been subject to British domination. |
În Irlanda ei au fost supuși dominației Britanice. |
| In America Catholics were still forbidden from settling in some of the colonies. |
În America, Catoliciilor le era până când interzis să se stabilească în unele colonii. |
| Although the head of their faith dwelt in Rome, they were under the official representation of the Catholic Bishop of the London diocese, one James Talbot. |
DEși capul credinței lor era la Roma, ei erau oficialii reprezentanți ai Episcopului Catolic din Eparhiei din London pe nume James Talbot. |
| When War began, Bishop Talbot declared his faithfulness to the British Crown. |
Când s-a început războiul, episcopul Tlbot a declarat suveranitatea sa Coroanei Regale a Marei Britanii. |
| (If he had done otherwise, Catholics in England would have been in trouble. Anti-Catholic sentiment still ran high.) |
Dacă el ar face în caz contrar, Catolicii din Anglia ar fi fost în pericol, fiind că spiritul Anti-Catolicismului cuntinua să crească. |
| He forbade any Colonial priest to serve Communion. |
El a interzis oricărui preot din Colonie să înfăptuiască Împărtășania. |
| This made practice of the faith impossible. |
Aceasta a făcut ca practicarea acestei religii să fie imposibilă. |
| This created sympathy for the Colonial rebels. |
Având ca urmare simpatia rebelilor coloniali. |
| The Continental Army's alliance with the French increased sympathy for the faith. |
Alianța Forțelor Armate Continentale împreună cu cea franceză a crescut predispunerea pentru credință. |
| When the French fleet arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, the colony repealed the Act of 1664 and allowed citizenship to Catholics. |
Când flota franceză a ajuns în Newport, Insula Rhode a anulat Actul din 1664 și a permis cetățenia pentru catolici. |
| (This anticipated the provision of the Constitutional Bill of Rights which would strike anti-Catholic laws from the books.) |
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| After the war, the Pope created an American Bishop, John Carroll -- a descendant of the same Carrolls who had helped found Maryland -- and an American Diocese communicating directly with Rome. |
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| The British government commanded General Thomas Gage to enforce the Intolerable Acts and shut down the Massachusetts legislature. |
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| Gage decided to confiscate a stockpile of colonial arms located in Concord. |
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| On April 19, 1775, Gage's troops marched to Concord. |
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| On the way, at the town of Lexington, Americans who had been warned in advance by Paul Revere and others of the British movements made an attempt to stop the troops. |
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| No one knows which side fired the first shot, but it sparked battle on Lexington Green between the British and the Minutemen. |
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| Faced against an overwhelmingly superior number of British regular troops in an open field, the Minutemen were quickly routed. |
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| Nevertheless, alarms sounded through the countryside. |
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| The colonial militias poured in and were able to launch guerrilla attacks on the British while they marched on to Concord. |
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| The colonials amassed of troops at Concord. |
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| They engaged the British in force there, and they were able to repulse them. |
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| They then claimed the contents of the armory. |
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| The British retreated to Boston under a constant and withering fire from all sides. |
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| Only a reinforcing column with artillery support on the outskirts of Boston prevented the British withdrawal from becoming a total rout. |
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| The following day the British woke up to find Boston surrounded by 20,000 armed colonists, occupying the neck of land extending to the peninsula the city stood on. |
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