An American history . was besieging Gagein Boston. In August King George issued a proclamation call-ing on all loyal subjects to suppress the rebellion and sedition inNorth America. In September he hired 20,000 German soldiersfrom the princes of Hesse, Anhalt, and Brunswick, to reduce thecolonies to submission. In October a British captain, withoutprovocation, sailed into Falmouth harbor (Pordand, Maine) andburned the town, rendering 1000 people homeless on the eve ofa severe New England winter. In November two small Amer-ican armies under Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnoldwere invading Ca
An American history . was besieging Gagein Boston. In August King George issued a proclamation call-ing on all loyal subjects to suppress the rebellion and sedition inNorth America. In September he hired 20,000 German soldiersfrom the princes of Hesse, Anhalt, and Brunswick, to reduce thecolonies to submission. In October a British captain, withoutprovocation, sailed into Falmouth harbor (Pordand, Maine) andburned the town, rendering 1000 people homeless on the eve ofa severe New England winter. In November two small Amer-ican armies under Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnoldwere invading Canada with the sanction of the Continental Con-gress. And on the last day of December, 1775, Quebec barelyescaped capture by the colonial troops in a furious attack, inwhich Montgomery was killed and Arnold severely news of the burning of Falmouth and the kings contractfor German mercenaries reached Congress on the same indignation of the assembly was extreme. I am ready The Birth of the Nation 131. By his EXCELLENCY WILLIAM TRYON, Esquire. Captain General, and Governor in Chief in and lover the Province of NewTork, and theTerritories depending thereon in Jmerica, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the fame. A PRO C L A M A T I O N VITHEREAS r Tiavc received His IWajcffyt Royaf ProctooiaUoi, given at inu Court at i>t. Jmtis, the Twenty- third Day (kAu^ufl lall, in the Words following .? ) BY THE KING,A Proclamatioa For fupprefeing RT) B E L L IjO N and SEDITION. GEORGE R. j WHEREAS Duny lA our SutgcOi in Jlven |Part> of our Colonlei and Plintilisfli in Ifirlh-Aairkii, mllcd bydangcroul and ill dcGgning Men, and forgeT^g ihc Alitciiflce whicS ihey owe 10 the Pomtr ihal hit pmlcflcd andrunmncd ihcm, oAcr vDrioui dirarderly Alb .Jimffiiiicd in diHuibncc of the pubhc Peace, to the Obniuftion ofliiWul CarBmexc, gnd to the DfprclSaa oi (gr foyil Subjefli ciiTjing on the fnnic, hive 3( length proctedctl toan open and avowed Rebellion, by omying twmrelvci in hollik
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