British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783

British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Sheldon Samuel Cohen
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781843830115

America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'. This overstatement has since been modified in comprehensive histories of the American Revolution. Gradually a more balanced portrait of British attitudes towards the conflict has emerged. In particular, studies of pro-American Britons have exemplified this fact by concentrating on only a small upper-class minority. In contrast, this work focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure.

Report of the State Librarian

Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1892
Genre: Pennsylvania
ISBN:

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