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Page 12
... called them , were willing to dissolve without a protest . There was something sacred and inviolate to them in an act of Parliament . But Patrick Henry , delegate from the upland county of Louisa , spoke out . He offered resolutions ...
... called them , were willing to dissolve without a protest . There was something sacred and inviolate to them in an act of Parliament . But Patrick Henry , delegate from the upland county of Louisa , spoke out . He offered resolutions ...
Page 15
... called it Monticello , the " little mountain , " and the house he built on it , wholly from his own plans and partly with his own hands , is one of the treasures of our colonial architecture . Only a single pavilion of the mansion was ...
... called it Monticello , the " little mountain , " and the house he built on it , wholly from his own plans and partly with his own hands , is one of the treasures of our colonial architecture . Only a single pavilion of the mansion was ...
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... called " the American States of the British Empire , " who met on Septem- ber 5 , 1774 , in the Carpenters ' Hall of Philadelphia . " Certain persons , " the lord governor of Virginia called them , " who have presumed without his ...
... called " the American States of the British Empire , " who met on Septem- ber 5 , 1774 , in the Carpenters ' Hall of Philadelphia . " Certain persons , " the lord governor of Virginia called them , " who have presumed without his ...
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... called to preside over the Virginia House of Bur- gesses . Soon after the opening of the Congress , the King's governors in America received a conciliatory pro- posal from Lord North , to the effect that any colony agreeing to raise the ...
... called to preside over the Virginia House of Bur- gesses . Soon after the opening of the Congress , the King's governors in America received a conciliatory pro- posal from Lord North , to the effect that any colony agreeing to raise the ...
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... called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of Bunker Hill reached Congress . Lexington and Concord might be explained away as skirmishes , but here was war in grim array , serried ranks of redcoats marching up the hill ...
... called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of Bunker Hill reached Congress . Lexington and Concord might be explained away as skirmishes , but here was war in grim array , serried ranks of redcoats marching up the hill ...
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