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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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held ;while every record of patriotic action, calculated to make the heartof every American citizen glow with love for his country, andreverence for those who procured the blessed inheritance, shallbe rehearsed, it shall be our aim to do this, and this only;and not, by the utterance of a single word, probe the healingwound of the last century, or sever one ligament of friendly feelingthat now binds us to our English brethren. Let us ratherstrengthen that bond, for our alliance is noble and honorable. Theobject of our friendship is wcrthy thereof, for, when we cast oureyes across the Atlantic, England, radiant with learning, art, 24 INTRODUCTION. science, religion, patriotism, every element of human progress,every ingredient of social good, every constituent of true greatness,beams like Hesperus amid the lesser orbs of the Old World. Letevery American heart respond to the sentiment of her own sweetpoet Cowper :— England, with all thy faults,I love thee still. THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE,
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Georgecession. William Pitt, First Earl of Chat-ham. Washington, from an Early Printby Trumbull. CHAPTER I. PROPER point of departure in the delineationof the events of the War of American Inde-( pendence, is the period when the several Englishcolonies, planted along the Atlantic sea-boardfrom Massachusetts to Georgia, first united forthe purpose of checking the extension of Frenchsettlements and the growth of French empireupon this continent. They were prompted tothis union by sentiments of true loyalty to the~ home government, and the counsels of self-interest. Until this period each colony, established upon its ownparticular basis, without any special reference to its sister settle-

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