Declaration of Taking up Arms

By Second Continental Congress

Book Id: WPLBN0000164817
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Declaration of Taking up Arms
Author:	Second Continental Congress
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


Citation APA MLA Chicago Congress, S. C. (n.d.). Declaration of Taking up Arms. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

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PREFACE: The following volumes are not offered to the public as being in any degree an historical narrative, or a relation of real events. Real characters and real events are, however, alluded to; and this course, if not strictly necessary, was found very convenient in the execution of the author's design, which was to illustrate not the history, but the character of the times. The antiquarian reader will perceive that some liberties have been taken with the received accounts of Sir Philip (or Sir Christopher) Gardiner; and a slight variation has been allowed in the chronology of the Pequod war. The first settlers of New-England were not illiterate, but learned and industrious men. They seem to have understood the importance of their station. The Massachusetts colony, and some of the other establishments sparsely scattered on the coast...

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