. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. Death of Montcalm. Bunker Hill Chapter XTHE REVOLUTION—TYRANNY OF KING GEORGE [Au(/iorities : Fiske, American Revolution ; Frothingham, Rise of t
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. Death of Montcalm. Bunker Hill Chapter XTHE REVOLUTION—TYRANNY OF KING GEORGE [Au(/iorities : Fiske, American Revolution ; Frothingham, Rise of the Republic ; Abbot, Revolutionar} Times; Lecky, England in the Eighteenth Century; Governor HutchinsonsDiary and Letters; Burkes Speeches on America; Franklins Autobiography; Sloane, TheFrench War and the Revolution ; Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England ;Lodge. .Short History of the American Colonies.] *VN the year 1760, George III. became King of not a particularly bright man, he was by nomeans a mere figurehead to the goverimient, such as hisfather and his grandfather had been. On the contrary,he was strong, earnest, and pig-headed as ever king couldbe. He was determined to rule England himself, andhe certainly exercised more power than any other of herHanoverian sovereigns. With his usual obstinate vvrong-headedness, he plunged im-mediately into a quarrel with the American colonies. This wasreally but an echo of his struggle
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