The History of the War in America, Between Great Britain and Her Colonies, From Its Commencement to the End of the Year 1778, Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from The History of the War in America, Between Great Britain and Her Colonies, From Its Commencement to the End of the Year 1778, Vol. 2 of 2: In Which Its Origin, Progress, and Operations Are Faithfully Related, Together With Anecdotes and Characters of the Different Commanders, and Accounts of Such Personages in Congress as Have Distinguished Themselves During the Contest; To Which Is Added, A The dispute between Great-Britain and America commenced in the year 1764, with an attempt to prevent Smuggling in America. There are some persons who apprehend the feeds of it were gown much earlier. They may be right. - But it is not the design of this compilation to explain motives, or explore latent causes. The object here is, to present an impartial collection of authentic Documents; with such additions only, as are absolutely necessary to connect the narrative. In 1764, the British ministry having come to a resolution, to prevent, as much as possible, the practice of smuggling, not only the commanders of the armed cutters stationed on the British coasts, but of the ships sent to America, were ordered to act in the capacity of revenue officers, to take the usual Custom-house oaths, and observe the Custom-house regulations; by which that enterprising spirit of theirs, which had been lately, with great success, exerted against the common enemy, was now directed and encouraged against the subject. Trade was injured by this measure. The gentlemen of the navy were not acquainted with Custom-house laws, and therefore many illegal seizures were made. The subject in America could get no redress but from England, which was tedious and difficult to obtain. A trade had for many years been carried on between the British and Spanish colonies, consisting of the manuscripts of Great-Britain, imported by the British colonies as for their own consumption, and bought with their own produce; for which they were paid by the Spaniards in gold and silver, sometimes in bullion and sometimes in coin, and with cochineal, &c. occasionally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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