Popular History of England, Том 6Bradbury, Evans, 1860 |
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... Town Washington's March to Virginia . Fleet of De Grasse arrives in the Chesapeake 425 Henry Grattan . His Efforts for Legislative Independence . 445 The Volunteers of Ireland The King's Message to the British and Irish Parliaments The ...
... Town Washington's March to Virginia . Fleet of De Grasse arrives in the Chesapeake 425 Henry Grattan . His Efforts for Legislative Independence . 445 The Volunteers of Ireland The King's Message to the British and Irish Parliaments The ...
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... towns , there were similar disturbances . The elections of the spring of 1715 were conducted with more violent excitement than at any previous period . Mob intimidation was held to be more effective even than bribery . The impeachments ...
... towns , there were similar disturbances . The elections of the spring of 1715 were conducted with more violent excitement than at any previous period . Mob intimidation was held to be more effective even than bribery . The impeachments ...
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... towns , who had a natural horror of political convulsions . The Lowland Lairds , a jovial and thoughtless race , having little acquaintance with the real business of life , and very slight participation in the conduct of public affairs ...
... towns , who had a natural horror of political convulsions . The Lowland Lairds , a jovial and thoughtless race , having little acquaintance with the real business of life , and very slight participation in the conduct of public affairs ...
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... town , nor the least care taken of sending for powder to any place . We did not want gunsmiths ; and yet none of them were employed in mending our old arms . Whoever spoke of these things , which I did often , was giving himself airs ...
... town , nor the least care taken of sending for powder to any place . We did not want gunsmiths ; and yet none of them were employed in mending our old arms . Whoever spoke of these things , which I did often , was giving himself airs ...
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... town they entered without resistance ; and then posted themselves in the remains of the citadel , built by Cromwell , but demolished at the Restoration . Here , having seized some cannon and ammunition from vessels in the harbour , they ...
... town they entered without resistance ; and then posted themselves in the remains of the citadel , built by Cromwell , but demolished at the Restoration . Here , having seized some cannon and ammunition from vessels in the harbour , they ...
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