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Title: The first American civil war; first period, 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Belcher, Henry, 1846-1916
Subjects: United States. Continental Army Great Britain. Army United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n address : 1776. The benefits, advantages, and favours we have experienced by our dependence in and connection with the Kings Government, under which we have enjoyed this happy state, appear to demand from us the greatest circumspection, care, and constant endeavours to guard against every attempt to alter or subvert that dependence and connection. As a matter of history the Quakers owed much tothe favour of the Crown. Charles the Second hadby direct intervention checked the brutal persecutionof this sect by the Puritans of New England. Jamesthe Second had confirmed to his Quaker friend, WilliamPenn, a vast region for his private property, previouslygranted to him as his own by His Majesty of EnglandCarolus 2nd. For these and other such favours theFriends were sincerely thankful, in which mood theywere reluctant to bite the bounteous hand that hadfed them. Hence the concurrence of so many propitious cir- ^ F. D. Pastorius ; cf. Hart, Contemporaries, i. 163. THr o n K PUBLIC Li^d:^;^^
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OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH 261 cumstances—a friendly people, roomy houses, greenpastures, orchards and gardens, plenty to eat and moreto drink—made Germantown a kind of earthly paradiseto the weary British troops. They had been six weeksat sea on three weeks provisions; they had landedwithin a hundred miles of Philadelphia on the 25thof August, and had been marching and counter-march-ing for a weary month amidst blinding hail or stormsof rain before entering that city ; they had lost nearlyall their horses, and it would seem that the haulage of theirartillery, like the bringing of those famous brass piecesfrom Marseilles to Paris in 1792, had been donechiefly by hand. At any rate, to settle in a countryover whose products the sensuous lips of John Adamswatered the melons, the peaches, the apples, the nuts,the poultry, the sweet hams, the beautiful cheeses, andthe spun butter, was too delightful both in fact andfruition for Howe not to avail himself of the happyopportunity. The greate

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