Whereas it is the prevailing rage of the present times, for people of all ranks, orders, and professions, to form associations, and erect themselves into what they call congresses and committees of various denominations ... It is therefore humbly proposed by the moderator and select men, that a military congress be immediately formed, under the name of Grand Congress of Comptroul ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42984
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: American loyalists; Politics and government; History; Great Britain. Army
Notes: Proposing a congress of British officers, authorized to pursue measures necessary "... to obviate the insidious schemes, of a most artful, indefatigable, unprincipled, and ungenerous enemy."

"Prepared by British officers?"--Ford.

Imprint determined from internal evidence.

Bristol B4169

Shipton & Mooney 42984

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1938