Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... America ' ( Yale University Press and Humphrey Milford , 1921 , 267 pp . ) is slightly more restricted in scope . H. E. Egerton's Causes and Character of the American Revolution ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1923 , 207 pp . ) is the best ...
... America ' ( Yale University Press and Humphrey Milford , 1921 , 267 pp . ) is slightly more restricted in scope . H. E. Egerton's Causes and Character of the American Revolution ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1923 , 207 pp . ) is the best ...
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... America , 7 October 1763 . From James Otis's Rights of the British Colonies , 1764 A Remonstrance from the Pennsylvania Frontier , 1764 The Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act , 30 May 1765 : 1. Patrick Henry's Speech , from different ...
... America , 7 October 1763 . From James Otis's Rights of the British Colonies , 1764 A Remonstrance from the Pennsylvania Frontier , 1764 The Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act , 30 May 1765 : 1. Patrick Henry's Speech , from different ...
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... America ; it is an important part of the great liberal movement of the eighteenth century , a portent of dominion home rule , and a laboratory of imperial and federal problems . In 1760 , when the Seven Years ' War closed in North America ...
... America ; it is an important part of the great liberal movement of the eighteenth century , a portent of dominion home rule , and a laboratory of imperial and federal problems . In 1760 , when the Seven Years ' War closed in North America ...
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... of Spain's Western policies . The reader is referred , in the first instance , to H. E. Bolton , The Spanish Borderlands ( Chronicles of America ' , v . 23 ) . With the different conditions that obtained in Canada - a xviii INTRODUCTION.
... of Spain's Western policies . The reader is referred , in the first instance , to H. E. Bolton , The Spanish Borderlands ( Chronicles of America ' , v . 23 ) . With the different conditions that obtained in Canada - a xviii INTRODUCTION.
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... America , General Braddock . That ill - starred soldier laid the foundations for an imperial western policy , in 1756 , by appointing two highly capable colonists , Sir William Johnson , and later , John Stuart , as Superintendents of ...
... America , General Braddock . That ill - starred soldier laid the foundations for an imperial western policy , in 1756 , by appointing two highly capable colonists , Sir William Johnson , and later , John Stuart , as Superintendents of ...
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