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... loyalists kindly . Often such accounts portray views of those who opposed independence as traitors at worst or , at best , timid , misguided loyalists souls . But within the last generation , many historians have taken a more dispassion ...
... loyalists kindly . Often such accounts portray views of those who opposed independence as traitors at worst or , at best , timid , misguided loyalists souls . But within the last generation , many historians have taken a more dispassion ...
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... Loyalists under Major John Butler and Iroquois fighters under a Mohawk chief , Thayendanegea ( called Joseph Brant by the English ) , had conducted a series of raids along the New York and Pennsylvania fron- tiers . Sullivan's ...
... Loyalists under Major John Butler and Iroquois fighters under a Mohawk chief , Thayendanegea ( called Joseph Brant by the English ) , had conducted a series of raids along the New York and Pennsylvania fron- tiers . Sullivan's ...
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... Loyalists were numerous , they believed , especially in the backcountry . Resentment of the seaboard , a rebel stronghold , would breed readiness among frontier folk to take up arms for the king at the first show of British force . And ...
... Loyalists were numerous , they believed , especially in the backcountry . Resentment of the seaboard , a rebel stronghold , would breed readiness among frontier folk to take up arms for the king at the first show of British force . And ...
Contents
THE CREATION OF A NEW AMERICA | 2 |
The European Background of American Colonization | 17 |
Backdrop to Reform 24 The Teachings of Martin Luther | 24 |
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