An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof, with Its Various Successes and Disappointments, on Both Sides. By the Rev. James Murray, ...T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market, R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-noster-Row, London, N. Frobisher, York, C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow, 1780 - United States - 575 pages |
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... taken off inftead of receiving fresh parliamentary confirmation . Unreasonable as this law may appear to be , the method of putting it in execution was ftilll more ab- furd and oppreffive . A number of armed cutters were fitted out and ...
... taken off inftead of receiving fresh parliamentary confirmation . Unreasonable as this law may appear to be , the method of putting it in execution was ftilll more ab- furd and oppreffive . A number of armed cutters were fitted out and ...
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... taken poffeffion of their minds be- fore , upon hearing that it was voted a proper measure to lay it upon them , broke out into fury and outrage . The fhips in the harbours hung out their colours half mast high , in token of deep ...
... taken poffeffion of their minds be- fore , upon hearing that it was voted a proper measure to lay it upon them , broke out into fury and outrage . The fhips in the harbours hung out their colours half mast high , in token of deep ...
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... , barbarous , and unjuft . His papers were all burnt , his house unroofed , and all his clothes , with thofe of his daughter and fifter , were taken away . 1 cipal inhabitants of fome places , who inftructed their 36 HISTORY OF.
... , barbarous , and unjuft . His papers were all burnt , his house unroofed , and all his clothes , with thofe of his daughter and fifter , were taken away . 1 cipal inhabitants of fome places , who inftructed their 36 HISTORY OF.
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... taken by them , in confequence of injunc- tions , merely for the fake of that community , thought proper to dif- peafe with the ufual ftamps , grounding their difpenfation on the impof- fibility of procuring any veffels to protect them ...
... taken by them , in confequence of injunc- tions , merely for the fake of that community , thought proper to dif- peafe with the ufual ftamps , grounding their difpenfation on the impof- fibility of procuring any veffels to protect them ...
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... taken all their neceffa- ries from Britain , when they could have , and make them at home , without reducing them to a state of mere flavery .. The miniftry , on this occafion were much perplex- ed . They were preffed on the one hand to ...
... taken all their neceffa- ries from Britain , when they could have , and make them at home , without reducing them to a state of mere flavery .. The miniftry , on this occafion were much perplex- ed . They were preffed on the one hand to ...
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