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When America Won Liberty; Patriots and Royalists

When America Won Liberty; Patriots and Royalists

Jenks, Tudor

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150415983
ISBN13: 9781150415982
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... Preface THIS volume begins with the firm establishing of the colonies, and their main communities. Then it tells the story of how the various nations of the Old World came into conflict in the American continent, and how after the contest narrowed down to a struggle between the French and the English, the English succeeded in securing the leadership and the possession of the more important colonies along the Atlantic coast. The book treats next the effect of English rule upon the American colonists, the questions arising between King and the people in America, and shows how at length the matter of taxation presented a difference that could not be peaceably settled. The War of the Revolution is told as it affected the state of the country, and changed the lives of the people. The battles that were turning-points in the fortunes of the colonists are described so as to show their importance, and to give a picture of the ways.in which they were lost and won. With the coming of peace, the state of the country is described, and the results of the long contest are shown. The volume ends with a nation beginning to guide its own fortunes. o When America Won Liberty CHAPTER I THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH DISPUTES IN AMERICA IT was just about the end of the seventeenth century that America ceased to be an unknown and strange land, becoming, instead, a vast continent whose extent was not yet comprehended further than to be considered by the nations of the Old World a great domain well worth the winning. Upon the eastern edge of this continent was situated a large number of communities having little intercourse with one another or with lands beyond the sea. Except for the strip of coastland, and for certain settlements along the courses of rivers, the wilderness remained pr...

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