Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... British Empire . E. Channing's History of the United States , vol . iii , 1761–89 ( Macmillan , 1912 , 585 pp . ) , is the best single volume covering the whole of the Revolutionary period , by the greatest living authority on American ...
... British Empire . E. Channing's History of the United States , vol . iii , 1761–89 ( Macmillan , 1912 , 585 pp . ) , is the best single volume covering the whole of the Revolutionary period , by the greatest living authority on American ...
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... 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 sources 2. The Resolves . I · 14 17 Soame Jenyns's Objections ...
... 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 sources 2. The Resolves . I · 14 17 Soame Jenyns's Objections ...
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... British Colonies , is the first of numerous attempts by colonial publicists , following each forward move of the British Government from 1764 to 1774 , to formulate a de- fensive theory of the colonial status . The short extracts here ...
... British Colonies , is the first of numerous attempts by colonial publicists , following each forward move of the British Government from 1764 to 1774 , to formulate a de- fensive theory of the colonial status . The short extracts here ...
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... British manufactures , land on tea , when entering the colonies . The moneys thus raised in the colonies , instead of going to support the garrison , were to be used to create a colonial civil list ( p . 51 ) , and thus render the royal ...
... British manufactures , land on tea , when entering the colonies . The moneys thus raised in the colonies , instead of going to support the garrison , were to be used to create a colonial civil list ( p . 51 ) , and thus render the royal ...
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... British Politics ( 2 vols . , Cleveland : A. H. Clark , 1917 ) ; the well - presented results of deep research on the efforts of the British Government to solve the Western problem . Theodore Roosevelt , The Winning of the West ( 6 vols ...
... British Politics ( 2 vols . , Cleveland : A. H. Clark , 1917 ) ; the well - presented results of deep research on the efforts of the British Government to solve the Western problem . Theodore Roosevelt , The Winning of the West ( 6 vols ...
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