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October 16th (search for this): chapter 7
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Chapter 47:
Effect of Bunker bill battle in Europe.
July 25—August, 1775.
during the first weeks of July the king contem-
Chap. XLVII.} 1775. July. plated America with complacency; assured that, in New York, his loyal subjects formed the majority, that in Virginia the rebels could be held in check by setting upon them savages and slaves.
Ships were to be sent at once; and if they did not reduce the country, the soldiery would finish the work at the very worst in one more campaign.
Alone of the ministers, Lord North was ill at ease, and when a friend said to him, The rebels may make you propositions, he replied with vivacity, Would to God they may.
Neither the court, nor the ministers, nor the people at large had as yet taken a real alarm.
Even Edmund Burke, who, as the agent of New York, had access to exact information and foresaw an engagement at Boston, believed that Gage, from his discipline and artillery as well as his considerable numbers, would beat the raw Amer
13th (search for this): chapter 7
December (search for this): chapter 7
October (search for this): chapter 7
September (search for this): chapter 7
August (search for this): chapter 7
July (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 47:
Effect of Bunker bill battle in Europe.
July 25—August, 1775.
during the first weeks of July the king contem-
Chap. XLVII.} 1775. July. plated America with complacency; assured that, in New York, his loyal subjects formed thJuly. plated America with complacency; assured that, in New York, his loyal subjects formed the majority, that in Virginia the rebels could be held in check by setting upon them savages and slaves.
Ships were to be sent at once; and if they did not reduce the country, the soldiery would finish the work at the very worst in one more campaign. he raw American troops, and succeed.
An hour before noon of the twenty fifth, tidings of the Bunker
Chap. XLVII.} 1775. July. Hill battle reached the cabinet, and spread rapidly through the kingdom and through Europe.
Two more such victories, sai m up till the afternoon of the first of November.
Three days after the arrival of the news of the
Chap. XLVII.} 1775. July and Aug. Charlestown battle, Rochford, the secretary of state, called the attention of De Guines, the French ambassador, t
October 10th (search for this): chapter 7
5th (search for this): chapter 7