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A History of the American People, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
A History of the American People Vol 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Woodrow Wilson THERE had been some noteworthy passages in the repoits which Colonel Francis Nicholson sent to the government at home when he was first governor of Virginia (1690); for he studied his duties in those daj^s with wide-open eyes, and had sometimes written of what he saw with a very statesmanlike breadth and insight. It was very noteworthy, among ot... more »her things, that he had urged a defensive confederation of the colonies against the French and Indians, under the leadership of Virginia, the most loyal of the colonies. He hctd made it his business to find out wrhat means of defence and what effective military force there were in the other colonies, particularly in those at the north, conferring with their authorities with regard to these matters in person when he could not get the information he wished b}7 deputy. The King and his ministers in England saw very clearly, when they read his careful despatches, that they could not wisel}r act upon such suggestions yet; but they knew that what Colo
Table of Contents
I Common Undertakings 1; II The Parting of the Ways 98; III The Approach of Revolution 172; IV The War for Independence 223; APPENDIX 331
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