John's property was destroyed, and he was forced into hiding at the age of 65. In the middle of winter, John traveled through forests by day and slept in caves by night. When he was finally able to return home, his wife was dead, his 13 children were gone, and shortly after, he fell sick and died alone.
Our Founding Fathers paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
There is a lot of history that has never been taught us in the schools even 60 years ago when we were there. I doubt if they even teach history at all now. If they do it would be all the new re-written stuff that's been going on for the last 20 years or more.