THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Complete Edition In 2 Volumes). Fiske John

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СКАЧАТЬ The “Illustrious Ninety-Two”

       Impressment of citizens

       Statute of Henry VIII. concerning “treason committed abroad”

       Samuel Adams makes up his mind, 1768

       Arrival of troops in Boston

       Letters of “Vindex”

       Debate in Parliament

       Colonel Barré’s speech

       Thomas Hutchinson

       Virginia resolutions, 1769

       Assault on James Otis

       The “Boston Massacre”

       Some lessons of the “Massacre”

       Lord North’s ministry

       The merchants of New York

       Assemblies convened at strange places

       Taxes in Maryland

       The North Carolina “Regulators”

       Affair of the Gaspee

       The salaries of the judges

       Jonathan Mayhew’s suggestion

       The committees of correspondence in Massachusetts

       Intercolonial committees of correspondence

       The question of taxation revived

       The king’s ingenious scheme

       How Boston became the battle-ground

       The five towns ask advice

       Arrival of the tea; meeting at the Old South

       The tea-ships placed under guard

       Town meeting at the Old South

       The tea thrown into the harbour

       Grandeur of the Boston Tea Party

       How Parliament received the news

       The Boston Port Bill

       The Regulating Act

       The shooting of citizens

       The Quebec Act

       Gage sent to Boston

       CHAPTER III THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

       Belief that the Americans would not fight

       Belief that Massachusetts would not be supported by the other colonies

       News of the Port Bill

       Samuel Adams at Salem

       Massachusetts nullifies the Regulating Act

       John Hancock and Joseph Warren

       The Suffolk County Resolves, Sept. 6, 1774

       Provincial Congress in Massachusetts

       Meeting of the Continental Congress, Sept. 5, 1774

       William Howe

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