Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... 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.
... 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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Samuel Eliot Morison. With the different conditions that obtained in Canada - a strong government , a powerful fur - trading interest , a small white population , and autocratic traditions - the Indians might have been exterminated in a ...
Samuel Eliot Morison. With the different conditions that obtained in Canada - a strong government , a powerful fur - trading interest , a small white population , and autocratic traditions - the Indians might have been exterminated in a ...
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... obtain freedom from transatlantic control . " 2 Another document that illustrated the internal conflict in the Colonies , but without Indian complications , is the petition of North Carolina Regulators ' in 1769 ( pp . 83-7 ) . In this ...
... obtain freedom from transatlantic control . " 2 Another document that illustrated the internal conflict in the Colonies , but without Indian complications , is the petition of North Carolina Regulators ' in 1769 ( pp . 83-7 ) . In this ...
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... obtained its coveted grant . Not improbably its defeat was due in part to the influence of Virginians like George Washing- ton , Richard Henry Lee , and Patrick Henry , who had rival plans regarding the twenty million acres on the ...
... obtained its coveted grant . Not improbably its defeat was due in part to the influence of Virginians like George Washing- ton , Richard Henry Lee , and Patrick Henry , who had rival plans regarding the twenty million acres on the ...
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... obtain her object in the peace negotiations . The American commissioners stood out for the Mississippi boundary , and obtained it so far as 1 P. C. Phillips , The West in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution ( University of Illinois ...
... obtain her object in the peace negotiations . The American commissioners stood out for the Mississippi boundary , and obtained it so far as 1 P. C. Phillips , The West in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution ( University of Illinois ...
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