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In this issue, I would like to talk about the American Revolutionary War. When the U.S. was a British colony, the American people were subjected to various taxes and economic restrictions, such as the "stamp tax and the "tea tax. Finally, the Americans could not take it anymore and decided to become independent, and finally went to war with the British in 1775. This was the War of Independence. However, the U.S., which at the time relied heavily on imports of paper from England, Netherland, and other countries, ran into difficulties when it came time to fight the war.
Troubled by the situation, the government issued a series of announcements and calls for increased paper production. Since paper was made from rags from used clothing, residents were required to accumulate as little white rags as possible for use in papermaking. North Carolina's paper mills would tell young women, "Cloth is no longer fit to hide your snow-white breasts," and "Sell your old handkerchiefs to yourself, and they may one day come back as love letters. With the catchphrase, "If you sell your old handkerchiefs to me, they may one day come back as love letters," they appealed to the paper mills to sell their rags.
In the war, many books were torn up and used as paper for musket firing. Most of the 3,000 copies of "The Bible" published during the war years were used to fire muskets. Also, an unbound copy of the "Martyrology of the Martyrs" (a record of Christian martyrs) was captured by a Continental Army unit on its way to the bookbinders in two wagons and used in the Battle of Brandywine (that's looting!). The newspaper apologized, saying, "We'd love to run more stories, but we don't have the paper for it!" They apologized. Through these hardships, the U.S. won the battle against the British and gained its independence.
