Remembering Suwannee: 250 years of independence

Eric Musgrove Contributor It was a long shot, many said. A group of ragtag, mainly backwoods frontiersmen, against the most powerful empire of the day. Its army nearly always outnumbered and undersupplied, its navy hopelessly outclassed with odds of 35:1, and yet they still fought on for years, often giving up ground and major population centers along the way. “The Great Experiment,” the society would be called a few short years later. The fighting had begun in earnest in April of 1775, but years of unrest had preceded it. A year later, many citizens were clamoring to establish a new country, and the leading minds met in Philadelphia to see what could be done. A month of heated debate