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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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foreign rum, sugar, and molasses, imported into the colonies. Proposals for uniting the Colonies, January, 1757. A revenue of more than sixty thousand pounds sterling annually was confidently promised from this source. The project of an American stamp-act was pressed upon Pitt himself. With the enemy at their backs, with English bayonets at their breast, in the day of their distress, perhaps the Americans, thought he, would submit to the imposition. Pitt in the House of Commons, 14 January, 1766. But the heroic statesman scorned to take an unjust and ungenerous advantage of them. He turned his eye to the mountains of Scotland for defenders of America, and two battalions, each of a thousand Highlanders, Anecdotes of Lord Chatham, i. 298. were raised for the service, under the command of Lord Eglinton and the Master of Lovat. Still he possessed no real power, and was thwarted in his policy at every step during the short period of his stay in office. Soon the Duke of Cumbe