An Impartial History of the War in America: Between Great Britain and Her Colonies, from Its Commencement to the End of the Year 1779. Exhibiting a Circumstantial, Connected, and Complete Account of the Real Causes, Rise, and Progress of the War, Interspersed with Anecdotes and Characters of the Different Commanders, and Accounts of Such Personages in Congress as Have Distinguished Themselves During the Contest. With an Appendix, Containing a Collection of Interesting and Authentic Papers Tending to Elucidate the History. Illustrated with a Variety of Beautiful Copper-plates, Representing Real and Animated Likenesses of Those Celebrated Generals who Have Distinguished Themselves in the Important ContestR. Faulder, 1780 - 652 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... fupply the lofs at Sara- toga . Mr Fox s motions in the committee , relative to ftate of the forces in America from the commencement of the war , and the loffes fuftained on that service , rejected , after much debate . Petition from ...
... fupply the lofs at Sara- toga . Mr Fox s motions in the committee , relative to ftate of the forces in America from the commencement of the war , and the loffes fuftained on that service , rejected , after much debate . Petition from ...
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... fupply himfelt with powder . Montezuma heard of his progrefs , without daring to oppofe it , though he commanded 30 vaflals , of whom each could appear at the head of 100,000 combatants , armed with bows and arrows . By fending a rich ...
... fupply himfelt with powder . Montezuma heard of his progrefs , without daring to oppofe it , though he commanded 30 vaflals , of whom each could appear at the head of 100,000 combatants , armed with bows and arrows . By fending a rich ...
Pagina 21
... fupply ment of the lofs of a citizen . If thofe who receive him have prisoners . their family weakened by war or other accidents , they adopt the captive into the family , of which he becomes a member . But if they have no occafion for ...
... fupply ment of the lofs of a citizen . If thofe who receive him have prisoners . their family weakened by war or other accidents , they adopt the captive into the family , of which he becomes a member . But if they have no occafion for ...
Pagina 45
... fupply the exi- gencies of the ftate . Agreeable to this idea , the fovereignty of the Isle of Man was purchased by the crown , CHAP . I. 1764. crown , and armed vefiels were A View of the Question in difpute, relative to Colonies; with ...
... fupply the exi- gencies of the ftate . Agreeable to this idea , the fovereignty of the Isle of Man was purchased by the crown , CHAP . I. 1764. crown , and armed vefiels were A View of the Question in difpute, relative to Colonies; with ...
Pagina 54
... fupply them with their paper - money ; a medium which , though attended with fome very confiderable difadvantages , enables them to fave that expence . The redun- dancy of paper - money has a farther tendency to banish the precious ...
... fupply them with their paper - money ; a medium which , though attended with fome very confiderable difadvantages , enables them to fave that expence . The redun- dancy of paper - money has a farther tendency to banish the precious ...
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Pagina 15 - Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham? He might have taken a higher example in "Wales — Wales, that never was taxed by Parliament till it was incorporated.
Pagina 70 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Pagina 12 - It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Pagina 131 - We are deeply affected," said its inhabitants, "with the sense of our public calamities ; but the miseries that are now rapidly hastening on our brethren in the capital of the Province greatly excite our commiseration.
Pagina i - An Impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and Her Colonies, from its Commencement to the end of the Year 1779.
Pagina 12 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Pagina 160 - British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Pagina 160 - That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Pagina 11 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North.
Pagina 18 - Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example.