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British parliamentarians and the American revolution
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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German Auxiliary Troops of the American Revolution
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The Cowpens Campaign and The American Revolution
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Crisis manager of the American Revolution: Henry Laurens
… of General Washington's command and the American alliance with France, Laurens went beyond his limited sphere of political authority to settle the matter. When a peace commission from England arrived in the United States to begin discussing terms for an end to the hostilities, Laurens …
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Honorable Decisions: Clerical Loyalty During the American Revolution
<p>The American Revolution forced colonists to make important decisions about their political loyalties that influenced every aspect of their lives. This was especially true for the clergy, who often struggled to both protect their flocks from the ravages of war while upholding their religious …
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Physical disability, disabled veterans and the American Revolution
… and conceptual tumult which faced disabled Revolutionary War veterans on their return. Analysis of the trajectory of disability pension legislation suggests an infant nation testing the waters with early welfare programmes, often with limited success. However, these early initiatives were …
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British Imperialism, Liverpool, and the American Revolution, 1763-1783
… knowledge of British imperialism during the American Revolutionary era (1763-1783).Part One analyses the ‘gentlemanly capitalist’ paradigm of P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. In brief, this theory argues that the landed elite and financial-commercial services, concentrated upon the City of London, …
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The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87
… people most valued in their neighbours, early Americanists do not centre epithets. Historians focus on individual terms – “whig,” “American,” and “republican” – but these labels have not been brought together into a conceptual history of epithets. When these terms are examined together, this …
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The west in the diplomatic negotiations of the American Revolution
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The American revolution and popular loyalism in the British Atlantic world
My thesis explores the American Revolution and War for Independence within the broader context of the British Atlantic world. It examines how the war and the revolutionary ideology affected the ways in which Britons living throughout the Atlantic world understood and articulated their loyalty to …
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Female camp followers with regular army forces during the American Revolution
… not. This pattern began to change during the American Revolution as governments and military commanders tightened their control on the military. Emerging army patterns and new attitudes concerning women acted to discourage the informal reliance on women and to encourage a more formal and …
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Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery In the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution
… South Carolina backcountry during the era of the American Revolution by focusing on events surrounding Thomas Sumter's Law, a recruiting plan that offered slaves and other Loyalist property, taken by the troops during the campaign, as an enlistment bounty granted to men willing to serve for a …
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New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution
This study describes and interprets the American Revolution in the region of eastern Sagadhoc, now eastern Maine. Attention is concentrated on the sequence of events in this area and their relationship with activities in the remainder of New England and in contiguous Nova Scotia all within the …
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THE GERMAN SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (VOLUMES I AND II, CHAPTERS 1-12)
… soldiers who served with the British Army in the American Revolution enabled the British to attempt to successfully wage war without affecting the stability of British society. The six German states that sent troops to America did so as a result of hundreds of years of normal troop trade. Few …
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Patriots Underground, Online: a Rhetorical Study of the Militia Movement's Use of the American Revolution
… its use of the political myth of the American Revolution. A study of militia movement web pages reveals that militia rhetors reinterpret the myth of the American Revolution in two stages: first, the federal current government oppresses its citizens, an activity which robs the …
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Tides of War: Privateering, The British Economy, and The Winning of the American Revolution, 1772-1783
<p>The standard answer to why the American colonies defeated the most powerful military force on Earth is French aid. The American Revolution may have been short-lived without the help of the avenging Bourbon Dynasty, but this thesis argues that privateering was just as pivotal to victory. If …
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