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Page 128
... tion . Power should rely on bayonets . He was not content to do so but , having been made governor , undertook to argue with the legislature the abstract question whether the authority of Parliament was supreme in British America ...
... tion . Power should rely on bayonets . He was not content to do so but , having been made governor , undertook to argue with the legislature the abstract question whether the authority of Parliament was supreme in British America ...
Page 268
... tion had to find a local outlet , and the Washington - Fairfax clique found it for him . They had already brought about his appointment as surveyor for the new county of Culpeper when he was seventeen . When he was not quite twenty he ...
... tion had to find a local outlet , and the Washington - Fairfax clique found it for him . They had already brought about his appointment as surveyor for the new county of Culpeper when he was seventeen . When he was not quite twenty he ...
Page 333
... tion must still be progressive . " It was the personality of Washington which held the army , and with it the nation , together through the darkest days of the war ; his char- acter was the guaranty which induced the states to adopt the ...
... tion must still be progressive . " It was the personality of Washington which held the army , and with it the nation , together through the darkest days of the war ; his char- acter was the guaranty which induced the states to adopt the ...
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