https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4786-the-american-rifleman-in-the-revolutionary-war?fbclid=IwAR3d2U67Qvemg6IUDl5mQRAHzBpBaZfvHpSV-yN2Wz__UBKIczHQ582IHDw# (https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4786-the-american-rifleman-in-the-revolutionary-war?fbclid=IwAR3d2U67Qvemg6IUDl5mQRAHzBpBaZfvHpSV-yN2Wz__UBKIczHQ582IHDw#)
Interesting article - thanks.
I do have to quibble with the statement the author makes early in the article " Historically in America, whenever anyone referred to the Dutchman down the road or the Dutch farmer across the creek, he meant German."
While that was mostly true in Pennsylvania and certain other colonies, in New York referring to a Dutchman generally meant, even to this day, "Dutch" as in The Netherlands. The entire Hudson River Valley up to an beyond Albany was exploited for the beaver pelt trade and settled by the Dutch in the early 1600's eventually becoming their colony of New Netherland. Manhattan island was the site of the large fort and city of New Amsterdam. The entire "Dutch" colony of New Netherlands was ceded to England as part of the settlement of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in the late 1660's, which became the English colony of New York. So here in New York, referring to the "Dutch" means the Dutch, not Germans.