Boston Under Military Rule, 1768-1769 as Revealed in a Journal of the Times
Author: Oliver Morton Dickerson
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 137
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Author: Oliver Morton Dickerson
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 137
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Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 164
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Published: 1934
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 137
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Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Published: 2021-09-10
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781015266414
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Author: Armand Francis Lucier
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn late September of 1768, a fleet of British warships entered Boston harbor, and two army regiments disembarked for a year-long occupation of the city. The governor, Sir Francis Bernard, had requested these forces as a means of preserving law and order and ensuring the protection of loyalist citizens after several disturbances earlier that summer had raised suspicions against patriot agitators. Samuel Adams, a staunch patriot, was outraged at this treatment, which he called "the grossest and most pointed Insult ever offered to a free People and its whole Legislature." With direct and indirect help from cohorts such as Joseph Warren, John Hancock and Paul Revere, Adams began to record his "journal of occurrences" for distribution among newspaper printers throughout the colonies. Adams knew how to use the press to influence the masses, and, at a time when strict adherence to facts was not a prerequisite to publication, these articles often record the abuses of the city magistrates and the occupying forces with an inflammatory rhetoric that vividly captures the intense feelings of the era. Here is an example of typical invective: "At a Council last Thursday Governor Bernard exhibited another Specimen of the inexpressible Littleness of his Mind, and the Fullness of its Enmity against the People..." The journal articles appeared with Boston datelines and under different titles. In this collection, the datelines are retained along with the original punctuation, capitalization, spelling and syntax except for minor editorial changes to improve consistency and clarity. Several letters, depositions, and other original documents are quoted as evidence of the military abuses and political machinations. An every-name index is included.
Author: Eric Hinderaker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-03-05
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0674979125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth history of the pivotal event in Colonial America, as well as its causes, competing narratives, and evolving memories. On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston’s Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign afterward to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity. When Parliament stationed two thousand British troops in Boston beginning in 1768, resentment spread rapidly among the populace. Steeped in traditions of self-government and famous for their Yankee independence, Bostonians were primed to resist the imposition. Living up to their reputation as Britain’s most intransigent North American community, they refused compromise and increasingly interpreted their conflict with Britain as a matter of principle. Relations between Britain and the North American colonies deteriorated precipitously after the shooting at the Custom House, and it soon became the catalyzing incident that placed Boston in the vanguard of the Patriot movement. Fundamental uncertainties about the night’s events cannot be resolved. But the larger significance of the Boston Massacre extends from the era of the American Revolution to our own time, when the use of violence in policing crowd behavior has once again become a pressing public issue. Praise for Boston’s Massacre George Washington Prize Finalist Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize “Fascinating . . . Hinderaker’s meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning . . . [Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about America’s identity, past and present.” —Wall Street Journal “Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, he shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation.” —Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions “Seldom does a book appear that compels its readers to rethink a signal event in American history. It’s even rarer . . . to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. Boston’s Massacre is a gem.” —Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0674076664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation’s ideological origins adds a new dimension to the book and projects its meaning forward into vital present concerns.
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 1424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780674641617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe paradoxical and tragic story of America's most prominent Loyalist - a man caught between king and country.