A most colossal conspiracy against the United States. I do not like the resurrection of the Jesuits. — Former US President John Adams, in 1816

We now come to another highly interesting portion of American history, which you would be hard pressed to find in the history books: the part played by the Jesuits in the American Revolutionary War-the War of Independence, 1776-1783.

We have seen the role of the Jesuits in the American Civil War.  But what part,, if any, did they play in the earlier war that transformed America from a collection of independent States to a United States of America?  The uninformed or partisan historians will tell us that this War was mainly, if not entirely, due to the arbitrary and “intolerable acts” of the British government, leading to the American Colonists desire to break with British rule.  I will now venture to shed some light on this dimly reported aspect of American history–and offer you a very different, and we hope more correct view.