History of the American Revolution: With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies with Great BritainN. Hickman, 1834 - 372 páginas |
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... supply bill for the year came up , and after vehement opposition , was also carried . On the 16th of April , Lord Bute unexpectedly resigned , and was succeeded by Mr. George Grenville . No other change of importance , either in the ...
... supply bill for the year came up , and after vehement opposition , was also carried . On the 16th of April , Lord Bute unexpectedly resigned , and was succeeded by Mr. George Grenville . No other change of importance , either in the ...
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... Their internal currency was deranged by the stoppage of their supplies of the precious metals ; their means of remittance for British manufactures were diminished , and their debts to British merchants D 2 AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 41.
... Their internal currency was deranged by the stoppage of their supplies of the precious metals ; their means of remittance for British manufactures were diminished , and their debts to British merchants D 2 AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 41.
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... supplies for the year . The sugar bill was passed , avowing in the preamble , the expediency of levying taxes in America , for " defending , protecting , and securing the British colonies and plantations in America , " - and the four ...
... supplies for the year . The sugar bill was passed , avowing in the preamble , the expediency of levying taxes in America , for " defending , protecting , and securing the British colonies and plantations in America , " - and the four ...
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... supplies . Their contributions to the common cause of the empire , had been acknowledged by repeated acts of parliament , returning them thanks and voting them remu- neration for the excess of their generous efforts . Mr. Burke , in his ...
... supplies . Their contributions to the common cause of the empire , had been acknowledged by repeated acts of parliament , returning them thanks and voting them remu- neration for the excess of their generous efforts . Mr. Burke , in his ...
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... supplies , by their own votes , as in the case of the Commons of Great Britain . They urged the strong repugnance in America to the proposed tax , and desired a suspension of the design . These representations availed nothing with the ...
... supplies , by their own votes , as in the case of the Commons of Great Britain . They urged the strong repugnance in America to the proposed tax , and desired a suspension of the design . These representations availed nothing with the ...
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