Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures by Jeremy Black

Author:Jeremy Black [Black, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Historiography, Education, Reference
ISBN: 9780253017062
Google: Cz5CCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015-08-03T01:41:26+00:00

I look on the fate of this country to be drawing to a speedy period whenever France should attain to a superior maritime power to Britain, which by the present of Cape Breton,36 we have given them an extensive foundation for. . . . I may say without the spirit of prophecy that whenever they think themselves so, the first blow they will strike, will be to strip us, of every one of our sugar colonies,37 which I know to be easily attainable by them, whenever they have a superior force by sea; and that the natural consequence of that will be, that you will by the same blow, lose all your American colonies as to their dependence on Britain. And then what must become of a nation . . . with eighty millions of debt, and deprived of those branches of commerce that principally produced the revenues, to pay the interest of those debts, is a melancholy consideration.38

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