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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... troops quartered there for their defence . This is a mere allegation ; for if the money collected from duties in America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend it to the British ...
... troops quartered there for their defence . This is a mere allegation ; for if the money collected from duties in America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend it to the British ...
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... troops under his command , befides what they had in other fervices ; to pay thefe troops , they raised about fix millions , and owe that fum to Britain . Hence they feem to have run in debt to Britain for all their expences in the war ...
... troops under his command , befides what they had in other fervices ; to pay thefe troops , they raised about fix millions , and owe that fum to Britain . Hence they feem to have run in debt to Britain for all their expences in the war ...
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... troops , levied taxes , and managed all things with a council of his own creatures , whom he made the iuftruments of his tyran ny , and the promoters of the ends of his covetoufnefs . Thomas Greenwood Benjamin Wadsworth Thomas Ruggles ...
... troops , levied taxes , and managed all things with a council of his own creatures , whom he made the iuftruments of his tyran ny , and the promoters of the ends of his covetoufnefs . Thomas Greenwood Benjamin Wadsworth Thomas Ruggles ...
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... troops , according to a method expreffed in the act ; which the affembly , inftead of obferving , purfued a meafure of their own , without paying any regard to the prefcription of par- liament . Whether they fhewed this oppofiticn out ...
... troops , according to a method expreffed in the act ; which the affembly , inftead of obferving , purfued a meafure of their own , without paying any regard to the prefcription of par- liament . Whether they fhewed this oppofiticn out ...
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... troops is e- very one's apprehenfion ; nothing fhort of enforcing by military power the execution of acts of parliament , in the forming of which the colo- nies have not , and cannot have any conftitutional influence . This is one of ...
... troops is e- very one's apprehenfion ; nothing fhort of enforcing by military power the execution of acts of parliament , in the forming of which the colo- nies have not , and cannot have any conftitutional influence . This is one of ...
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