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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... towns have we built for them ? What desert have we cleared ? What country have we conquered for them from the Indians ... town , and to plant a royal colony of Nova Scotia ; a greater sum than you have bestowed upon every other colony ...
... towns have we built for them ? What desert have we cleared ? What country have we conquered for them from the Indians ... town , and to plant a royal colony of Nova Scotia ; a greater sum than you have bestowed upon every other colony ...
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... town of New Orleans , and a few scattering settlements on the Mississippi . England gained from France a renunci- ation and guarantee of Nova Scotia , ( then called Acadie , ) Canada , and the islands in the river and Gulf of St ...
... town of New Orleans , and a few scattering settlements on the Mississippi . England gained from France a renunci- ation and guarantee of Nova Scotia , ( then called Acadie , ) Canada , and the islands in the river and Gulf of St ...
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... town of Boston alone , to encourage enlistment . Minot estimates the cost of that campaign to the colonial treasury of Massachusetts , at £ 120,000 , and to private persons , at £ 60,000 more . In one year Massachusetts had in the field ...
... town of Boston alone , to encourage enlistment . Minot estimates the cost of that campaign to the colonial treasury of Massachusetts , at £ 120,000 , and to private persons , at £ 60,000 more . In one year Massachusetts had in the field ...
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... towns and provinces , affording a proof as well of the spirit of repugnance to the measures of the British government , as of the necessities of the Colonies , deprived of their customary business , and exhausted of their means of ...
... towns and provinces , affording a proof as well of the spirit of repugnance to the measures of the British government , as of the necessities of the Colonies , deprived of their customary business , and exhausted of their means of ...
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... towns in Massachu- setts refused to levy rates or raise taxes ; and the selectmen of Ipswich , in spite of threatenings of fine and imprisonment , both of which were inflicted upon them for their disobedience , voted that it is against ...
... towns in Massachu- setts refused to levy rates or raise taxes ; and the selectmen of Ipswich , in spite of threatenings of fine and imprisonment , both of which were inflicted upon them for their disobedience , voted that it is against ...
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