Patrick Henry: Practical revolutionaryLippincott, 1969 |
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... Continental money could be redeemed only at 16 or 20 to 1 in specie , while expenses of the Continental quar- termaster and commissary departments alone had climbed to over $ 37,000,000 a year in paper money . It was of little comfort ...
... Continental money could be redeemed only at 16 or 20 to 1 in specie , while expenses of the Continental quar- termaster and commissary departments alone had climbed to over $ 37,000,000 a year in paper money . It was of little comfort ...
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... Continental money could no longer be relied upon to purchase food for the Army , 22 and on March 18 , 1780 , Congress in resolutions " dictated by despair " provided that the states should put into the Continental treasury for another ...
... Continental money could no longer be relied upon to purchase food for the Army , 22 and on March 18 , 1780 , Congress in resolutions " dictated by despair " provided that the states should put into the Continental treasury for another ...
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... CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1. American Archives , Ser . 4 , II , 1517 . 2. Albert Henry Smyth , editor , The Writings of Benjamin Franklin , VI , 408 ( hereafter cited as Smyth , Franklin Writings ) . 3. Edmund C. Burnett , Continental ...
... CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1. American Archives , Ser . 4 , II , 1517 . 2. Albert Henry Smyth , editor , The Writings of Benjamin Franklin , VI , 408 ( hereafter cited as Smyth , Franklin Writings ) . 3. Edmund C. Burnett , Continental ...
Contents
The Approaching Convention | 1 |
The St Johns Church Speech Introductory | 2 |
The St Johns Church Speech Conclusion | 3 |
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