The Mississippi Valley in British Politics: A Study of the Trade, Land Speculation, and Experiments in Imperialism Culminating in the American Revolution, Volume 2Arthur H. Clark Company, 1916 - Great Britain |
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Page 288 - The History of the British Dominions in North America: from the First Discovery of that Vast Continent by Sebastian Cabot in 1497, to its Present Glorious Establishment as Confirmed by the Late Treaty of Peace in 1763.
Page 275 - Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans, on the Subject of our Political Confusions.
Page 213 - A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Set forth in some resolutions intended for the inspection of the present delegates of the people of Virginia now in convention.
Page 317 - The Wisdom and Policy of the French in the Construction of their GREAT OFFICES, So as best to answer the Purposes of extending their Trade and Commerce, and enlarging their Foreign Settlements. With Some Observations in relation to the Disputes now subsisting between the English and French Colonies in America. London: Printed for R.
Page 28 - The proposition of forming inland colonies in America is, we humbly conceive, entirely new; it adopts principles in respect to American settlements different from what has hitherto been the policy of this kingdom; and leads to a system which, if pursued through all its consequences, is in the present state of this country of the greatest importance.
Page 263 - An Account of the Proceedings of the British and other Protestant Inhabitants of Quebeck in North America in order to obtain a House of Assembly in that Province.
Page 268 - HISTORY of the colonization of the free states of antiquity, applied to the present contest between Great Britain and her American colonies.
Page 280 - Evans (Lewis). Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. Number II. Containing, A Letter Representing, the Impropriety of sending Forces to Virginia; The Importance of taking Frontenac ; And that the Preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's Proceeding thither.
Page 308 - Fourth letter to the people of England, on the conduct of the m — rs in alliances, fleets, and armies, since the first differences on the Ohio, to the taking of Minorca by the French (London, 1756).
Page 309 - A brief state of the PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA, in which The Conduct of their Assemblies for several Years past is impartially examined, and the true Cause of the continual Encroachments of the French displayed, more especially the secret Design of their late unwarrantable Invasion and Settlement upon the River Ohio.