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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ritain, her possessions of East and WestFlorida. Thus ended the famous Seven Years War, which hadcost a million of lives, devastated no inconsiderable part of Europe,and carried carnage into all the four quarters of the globe. Englandwas the greatest winner, and her noblest acquisitions were inAmerica. Here she saw, not only her domain vastly expanded, andinvaluable sources of wealth opened to her avaricious desires,but she rejoiced in the loyal adhesion to her throne of nearly threemillions of people, ready to pour into her lap the treasures of peace-ful industry, or to lend willing hearts and strong arms in the defenceof her territory and her fame. And well would it have been for herif she had rightly appreciated this noble possession, and wisely * George II. was, by inheritance from his father, Elector of Hanover, a pettysovereignty of Germany, and to maintain his right to this domain, cost an awfulsacrifice of blood and treasure. f Pictorial History of England, vol. iv., page 614.
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chap, l) COLONIAL WARS—TO 1763. 49 General condition of the Colonies. cemented by generous kindness the bond of union between herselfand her Colonies. But an all-wise Providence had otherwise decreed;and the strange infatuation that subsequently caused British states-men to disregard the just rights of her colonial subjects, and tokindle a flame of discontent and rebellion in the hearts of herchildren, was the instrumentality that produced the conception andbirth of this great Republic, the pride and glory of the earth. We have thus taken a cursory view of the most prominent eventsthat transpired during nearly a century and a half, in a struggle forempire and territory in America, by the two leading powers ofEurope. Our narrative has been necessarily very brief; a littlemore than a general outline ; yet sufficient to develope the pro-gressive steps toward that point of self-sustaining confidence in theirmoral and physical resources, which distinguished the Colonieswhen they hurled t

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