epub |eng | | Author:Carol Berkin

XIII * * * Whether Federalist or Antifederalist, nationalist or provincial, the men who led the new nation had much more in common than they might have conceded in the ...

epub |eng | 1902-03-15 | Author:Sydney George Fisher [Fisher, Sydney George]

MAP OF THE SIEGE OF BOSTON, SHOWING THE IMPORTANCE OF BREED’S HILL, DORCHESTER HEIGHTS, AND NOOK’S HILL How shall I describe the people who held this opinion ? Some of ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Thomas Fleming

THE BATTLES of Springfield and Connecticut Farms reminded many in the American army of the fighting that had convulsed Massachusetts in April 1775. The rush of militia to the battle ...

epub |eng | 1998-03-13 | Author:Patricia Bradley

CHAPTER SIX Shame and Guilt in the Garden of the Innocent James Otis may be said to have ushered in the antislavery debate of the revolutionary period in his 1764 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Neil H. Cogan

epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

____________________ ADAMS WAS AHEAD of his time. The country reacted to the prospective collapse of its political arrangements by making one more effort to prop them up. It was the ...

epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:9781451603996

CHAPTER TEN “No Sooner Seen Than Lost” JONES HAD NO TIME to brood. At least eight Royal Navy warships, dispatched by a frantic Admiralty, were converging on Flamborough Head. The ...

epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Buchanan, John [Buchanan, John]

16 King’s Mountain “I will . . . follow Ferguson into Cornwallis’ Lines” The “flying column” did not get off to an auspicious start that very dark and rainy night. ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Thomas Fleming [Thomas Fleming]

V There were several factors in this enormously significant transformation. One was the mere sight of the army at Valley Forge. On February 2, 1778, a shocked Gouverneur Morris wrote ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Thomas Paine [Paine, Thomas]

The bishop says, that “miracles are proper proofs of a divine mission.” Admitted. But we know that men, and especially priests, can tell lies and call them miracles. It is ...

epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

Not costly vain, but plentifully Good. To bid the Cellar’s Fountain never fail, Of sparkling Cyder, or of well-brew’d Ale; To buy, to pay, to blame, or to approve, Within, ...

epub |eng | 1998-03-03 | Author:Daniel W. Barefoot

Turn left on S.C. 215 and drive northeast for 4.1 miles to S.C. 296. Turn left and proceed 2.7 miles to Nazareth Church Road, where a state historical marker commemorates ...

epub |eng | 2003-05-05 | Author:Ralph Ketcham [Ketcham, Ralph]

Amendments Proposed by the Anti-federalists As the debate over the new Constitution progressed, anti-federalist objections to the powers granted the federal government began to crystallize in specific proposals for amendments ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:Bernard Bailyn [Bailyn, Bernard]

II January 1, 1788 Mr. MARTIN’S Information to the House of Assembly, continued. When contrary to our hopes it was found, that a majority of the members of the convention ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Bernard Bailyn [Bailyn, Bernard]

Henry Lee’s Sharp Reply to Patrick Henry’s Attacks on the Constitution June 9, 1788 Mr. Lee, of Westmoreland.—Mr. Chairman.—When I spoke before, and called on the Honorable Gentleman (Mr. Henry) ...