Sketches of the Most Important Battles of the Revolution, Explanatory of the Vine of Liberty (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of the Most Important Battles of the Revolution, Explanatory of the Vine of Liberty Can colonies to submit to measures which they considered oppressive beyond endurance. This attempt the mother country made while laboring under a very important error, which was, that the Americans were destitute of true mili tary courage. She supposed that a little display of arms sand some bloodshed, would frighten them into submission; consequently, the war was carried on during the first year Without a great and systematic armament on the part of Great Britain; nor did the colonies make an entire separa tion from the parent country. At the Opening of the sec ond year, England came to the conclusion, from what had happened during the previous year, that if she conquered the Americans, much obstinacy and some real courage niust be encountered. Parliament, therefore; resolved to prose-f cute a systematic war. A large number of German troops. 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.