John Joachim Zubly: PART 3, A Patriot Essayist Whose Cause Was Lost
byIn the 1760s and through 1775 John J. Zubly was the leading Whig in Georgia. He wrote a number of sermons and political tracts…
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John Joachim Zubly: PART 2, A Patriot Congressman Whose Cause Was Lost
byGeorgia did not send a delegation to the first Continental Congress in 1774. The least populous colony of the thirteen British colonies in North…
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Lord Dartmouth’s War of Words, 1775
byIt was late 1775, and William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, was looking out the window of his office in Whitehall, London, thinking…
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Grappling with Imperium in Imperio: Indivisible Sovereignty in Joseph Galloway’s British Empire
byAlthough by 1775 hostilities between Great Britain and the American colonies had commenced, there were still those within the colonies who believed that the…
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Reconciliation between the Colonies and Great Britain—A Close Call
byThere were many attempts, before and during the American Revolution, to avoid armed conflict via negotiation, or to stop the war after it began….
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The Earl of Dartmouth: Secretary of State for the Colonies, Third Year: August 1774–November 1775
byWhile the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was on holiday in the summer of 1774, his office continued to receive…