epub |eng | 2000-02-22 | Author:John Ferling

8 “The Womb of Fate” Victory In the summer of 1780, when Adams told Vergennes that the war could be won only if the French fleet acted in concert with ...

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17 A Brief Discoverie HAVING ALREADY PROVED that close imprisonment and being forbidden pen and paper were not going to stop him publishing books, late in 1590 Barrow excelled himself, ...

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THE CASTAWAYS HAD reached an agricultural oasis in the midst of a sea of nomads. The captive’s village turned out to be part of a cluster of settlements located at ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Lottery poster, Society of Antiquaries, London. So, in 1616, the Virginia Company again revamped its plan. The previous lotteries had been in London and were called “standing lotteries,” but now ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Charles Townshend

The case of Irish republicanism The longest-lived of them, so far, is the Irish republican movement, whose most recent armed campaign lasted thirty years, and which can confidently trace its ...

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9 “The Destiny of Unborn Millions” AMERICA’S FIRST CITIZEN returned home after an absence of eight and a half years to find his private affairs in disarray. Mount Vernon was ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Matthew Jenkinson

Revisiting the royal commission of 1664 In 1799 Hannah Adams’s Summary History of New-England, From the First Settlement at Plymouth was ‘published according to Act of Congress’. It included the ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:C. Bradley Thompson;

CONSENT IN PRACTICE: THE IMPERIAL CRISIS The American Revolution began at a time when the colonists were among the wealthiest and freest people anywhere in the world. They were also ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-13 | Author:Thomas E. Crocker

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Flying Column THE CANDLES FLICKERED IN THE THICK night heat of the general’s tent at Little Meadows. So did tempers, fueled by wine at His Excellency’s dinner ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Heather Andrea Williams [Williams, Heather Andrea]

Chapter 5 Surviving slavery People may not have survived the hard labor and the violence, the domination and the degradation of slavery, had they not found ways of nurturing their ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-01 | Author:Adam Smith [Smith, Adam]

CHAPTER V. OF BOUNTIES. Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry. By means of them, ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Fred Anderson [Anderson, Fred]

Plan of a turret at Fort Loudoun, 1759. Captain Paul Demeré enclosed these sketches of features of Fort Loudoun in a letter to William Henry Lyttelton of February 27, 1759. ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

CONVOYS TO RUSSIA On October 20, 1621, boatmen on the Thames saw moored in the river five ships that had recently returned from the distant north. They came from the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:James Scott

AT THE END of the service, Elspeth and Charles stepped out into the bright light of day. They squinted. New snow made the world ache. “Where’s your wife?” Elspeth said. ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

“WHAT NEWS?” Jack asked Ben, hauling his keg to the tea-water pump. “What News?” he asked Cato on “the Night that Hilton’s House burnt . . . for he had ...