The American Revolution: In Two Volumes, Volume 1
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891 - United States
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adopted affairs Ameri American appointed army Arnold arrived assembly attack battle Boston Boston Massacre Britain British Bunker Hill Burgoyne Cambridge capture Chatham church citizens Colonel colonies command committees of correspondence Connecticut Continental Congress Cornwallis Crown Declaration of Independence delegates dence enemy England English Faneuil Hall favour fight fire fleet force Franklin Gage garrison Gates George George III governor Greene Hancock harbour Henry House of Commons Howe's Hudson ington Jersey John Adams king king's land letter Liberty Lord North Massachu Massachusetts measures ment military militia ministry officers Parliament party passed patriots petition Philadelphia political reason refused regiments repeal resistance retreat Rhode Island Richard Henry Lee river royal Samuel Adams Schuyler seized sent setts ship soldiers soon South Carolina Stamp Act Street taxes Ticonderoga tion Tory town meeting Townshend acts troops victory Virginia voted Washing Washington Whig whole York
Popular passages
Page 62 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful 'for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Page 180 - Congress be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent states, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the Crown or Parliament of Great Britain...
Page 136 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause.
Page 177 - TO CONCUR WITH THE DELEGATES OF THE OTHER COLONIES IN DECLARING INDEPENDENCY, AND FORMING FOREIGN ALLIANCES, reserving to this Colony the sole and exclusive right of forming a Constitution and laws for this Colony...
Page 93 - You have no government, no governor; the whole are the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had the least prudence, to follow their mercantile employment, and not trouble themselves with politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say: 'Oh, don't break their charter; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors of the crown.
Page 22 - may be pleaded from charters safely enough ; but any further dependence on them may be fatal. We should stand upon the broad common ground of those natural rights that we all feel and know as men and as descendants of Englishmen. I wish the charters may not ensnare us at last, by drawing different colonies to act differently in this great cause. Whenever that is the case, all will be over with the whole. There ought to be no New England man, no New Yorker, known on the continent ; but all of us...
Page 226 - The ingenious manoeuvre of Fort Washington has unhinged the goodly fabric we had been building. There never was so damned a stroke. Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province, I risk myself and army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost forever.
Page 91 - This is the most magnificent movement of all. There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire.
Page 103 - I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston.
Page 128 - That the Provincial Congress of each Province under the direction of the great Continental Congress is invested with all legislative and executive powers within their respective Provinces and that no other legislative or executive power does or can exist at this time in any of these colonies.