reluctant in raising funds to support their soldier. They relied heavily on donations and contributions instead of making used of their own collected taxes in supporting the soldiers as evident from article 7 on contribution of donations for relief of Boston.
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As the dispatch of the Astrea implies‚ during the War of Jenkins’ Ear Vernon recognised the advantages of the exploitation of the colonies in North America as the source of naval stores‚ thanks to the proposal that the officers at Port Royal advanced on the procurement of masts from New England. As the intercolonial trade between North America and the West Indies provided Jamaica with large amount of timber‚ naval stores‚ and provisions from the early eighteenth century‚ the officers fully grasped
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He found out that the French had already beat him to this site and they had erected another fort there. The next day the Virginians attacked a French scouting party killing ten soldiers including the commander‚ and capturing twenty one others. The Indians that were with the Virginians tomahawked and scalped many of the French soldiers who had been wounded in the attack. The soldiers who were mutilated and died
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Why the British Should Have Won the War How did the British lose the Revolutionary War? They had more‚ and better‚ everything. Such as better soldiers and better training. This would surely give them and advantage. Also the greater amount of supplies should help. But in the end they still lost‚ it could have been for a few‚ good‚ reasons. These reasons are minuscule compared to the power of the British military. The British should have won the Revolutionary War because they had a far superior
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Most people would think that General Washington was a successful military tactician is because of how he was employing a tactic of exploiting the night on several occasions or also known as the espionage tactics during the American War. In detail‚ General Washington first discovered that spy tactics was very crucial to gaining military advantages over enemy troops and the importance of codes and ciphers for wartime correspondence. In the French and Indian War‚ as General Washington served his time
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inauguration of President Obama‚ we have watched with horror how the Tea Party has taken over the GOP. What started up as a bunch of disgruntled misfits‚ has mushroomed into a larger movement and taken over the Republican Party. Arguably‚ they were aided and abetted by the libertarian oligarchs‚ David and Charles Koch’s hidden interests which financed and supported the groups with huge donations to their “cause” and candidates running on Tea Party platform. Gradually‚ we have seen GOP abandon its conservative
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sugar. A hogshead was a large barrel weighing between 700 and 1200 pounds. The picture was located in London. In document 4‚ it says how sugar is really addictive. Sugar as a sweetener came to the force in connection with three other imports such as tea‚ coffee‚ and chocolate. Next‚ my other source is document 11. This document shows all things that were traded from
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Colonists were mad at Britain because they had much more acts in place caused taxes to raise‚ this took place in the colonies with King George III‚ the colonists got mad and they decided to taunt British soldiers and they also decided to dump tea in a harbor. These two events caused the Revolution to start. What evidence shows why America started the American Revolution? Americans were justified in waging war with Britain because taxes and acts were being put in place one by one rapidly‚ the colonists
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The purpose of the Navigation Acts was Amazing: to protect British shipping against competition from the foreign places‚ and to please British merchants a money on colonial parties such as tobacco and sugar. The Navigation Acts came about in the context of mercantilism‚ the dominant economic system of the time among the European powers. According to mercantilist thought‚ a nation could measure its wealth in bullion‚ or its
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The Founding Fathers were justified in their actions of starting the American Revolutionary War against Britain. The Founding Fathers started the American Revolutionary War because of the excessive taxation‚ lack of parliamentary representation‚ and forced participation in the French and Indian War by Britain. The colonists attempted to work with Britain by boycotting and lobbying for representation but their attempts were dismissed by Britain. Britain simply continued to treat the colonies as
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