A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Band 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... Minister ... His proposition to tax the Colonies ... Resolutions imposing Stamp Duties ... and the consequences thereof . CHAP . IV . Meeting of ... Ministry ... PAGE 1 . 24 53 77 the strange mixture in his administration ... Mr . Townsend.
... Minister ... His proposition to tax the Colonies ... Resolutions imposing Stamp Duties ... and the consequences thereof . CHAP . IV . Meeting of ... Ministry ... PAGE 1 . 24 53 77 the strange mixture in his administration ... Mr . Townsend.
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... Ministry ... Lord North suc- ceeds the Duke of Grafton as First Lord of the Treasury ... His motion for the partial repeal of the Port Duties ... Debates thereon ... Riot at Boston between the soldiers and ropema- kers ... Several of ...
... Ministry ... Lord North suc- ceeds the Duke of Grafton as First Lord of the Treasury ... His motion for the partial repeal of the Port Duties ... Debates thereon ... Riot at Boston between the soldiers and ropema- kers ... Several of ...
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... Ministry ... Lord North suc- ceeds the Duke of Grafton as First Lord of the Treasury ... His motion for the partial repeal of the Port Duties ... Debates thereon ... Riot at Boston between the soldiers and ropema- kers ... Several of ...
... Ministry ... Lord North suc- ceeds the Duke of Grafton as First Lord of the Treasury ... His motion for the partial repeal of the Port Duties ... Debates thereon ... Riot at Boston between the soldiers and ropema- kers ... Several of ...
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... Ministry ... Letters of Washington .... Resolutions of Congress ... Miscellaneous Summary ... Inquiry into the cap- ture of the Cedars ... Commencement of the system of retalia- tion ... Reflections on its policy ... Letters ... Orders ...
... Ministry ... Letters of Washington .... Resolutions of Congress ... Miscellaneous Summary ... Inquiry into the cap- ture of the Cedars ... Commencement of the system of retalia- tion ... Reflections on its policy ... Letters ... Orders ...
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... Ministry with regard to this country , from its first set- tlement , down to the period , when entreaty and remon- strance gave place to debate and altercation , and these last to an appeal to arms , we should discover that our ...
... Ministry with regard to this country , from its first set- tlement , down to the period , when entreaty and remon- strance gave place to debate and altercation , and these last to an appeal to arms , we should discover that our ...
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Act of Parliament Americans appointed arms army arrived Assembly attack attempt battle Bill Boston Britain British British Parliament Captain cause CHIG Colonel Colonies Commander in Chief Committee common conduct Congress consider constitutional Continental Congress continued coun Crown declared defence determined duty effect enemy England feelings force friends Gage garrison Governour Hessians honour House hundred immediately important inhabitants Island justice King land Legislature letter liberty lonies Lord Chatham Lord Cornwallis Lord Dunmore Lord Hillsborough Lord North Lordship Majesty Majesty's Massachusetts measures ment merchants MICHI military militia Ministers Ministry neral New-York non-importation occasion officers Parliament party passed petition Pitt present prisoners Province publick Quebec received refused regard regiments repeal resolutions Resolved retreat river Samuel Adams sent ships sion soldiers soon South Carolina spirit Stamp Act thousand tion town troops UNIV Virginia Washington whole
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Seite 262 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Seite 218 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Seite 262 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Seite 95 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 75 - They protected by your arms ! They have nobly taken up arms in your defence ; have exerted a valour amidst their constant and laborious industry, for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.
Seite 356 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Seite 285 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent states.
Seite 219 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 359 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 284 - Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.