num_pages: 492
description: The purpose of this history of the Revolution is to use the original authorities rather more frankly than has been the practice with our historians. They appear to have thought it advisable to omit from their narratives a great deal which to me seems essential to a true picture. I cannot feel satisfied with any description of the Revolution which treats the desire for independence as a sudden thought and not a long growth and development or which assumes that every detail of the conduct of the British government was absurdly stupid even from its own point of view and that the loyalists were few in numbers and their arguments not worth considering. I cannot see any advantage in not describing in their full meaning and force the smuggling the buying of laws from the governors and other irregular conduct in the colonies which led England to try to remodel them as soon as the fear of the French in Canada was removed... - S.G. FisherContents: Early Conditions And Causes. Smuggling Rioting and Revolt against Control. Parliament Passes a Stamp Tax and Repeals It. Parliament Taxes Paint Paper and Glass and then Abandons Taxation. The Tea Episode. The Final Argument. The Rights of Man. A Reign of Terror for the Loyalists. The Real Intention as to Independence. The Continental Congress. The Situation in England. Triumphant Toryism. Lexington and the Number of the Loyalists. The Second Continental Congress and the Protests of the Loyalists. Bunker Hill. The Character and Condition of the Patriot Army. The Attack upon Canada. The Evacuation of Boston and the Declaration of Independence. The Battle of Long Island. The Battles of Trenton and Princeton. The Battle of Brandywine. The Battle of Saratoga and Its Results. Clinton Begins the Wearing-out Process. Arnold the Loyalist Tries to Save the British Empire. Cornwallis Brings the War to an End at Yorktown.
language: None
title: The True History of the American Revolution
publisher: Chios Classics