Which of the following is a reason why more than 5,000 blacks fought on the American side during the Revolutionary War? They believed George III would give them their freedom.

Those who were slaves would be able to rebel against their owners.

They believed in the words of the Declaration of Independence.

They were promised land and money.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion