Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Connecticut” in chapter 37 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition.:
...ngress had not so much as given to Massachusetts its advice that that province should institute a government of its own; it authorized no invasion of Canada, and only yielded its assent to the act of Connecticut in garrisoning Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
If great measures are to be adopted, the impulse must come from without.
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