The Continental Regiments of 1776: Boston and Quebec In 1775 the four New England colonies had raised their own armies in the aftermath of Lexington, and New York followed suit with encouragement from the Continental Congress. Lack of centralized direction allowed each colony to base its regimental organization on its own particular experience in the…
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Federalist No 19, The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation, Continued
(w/ Alexander Hamilton) For the New York Packet Saturday, December 8, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: THE examples of ancient confederacies, cited in my last paper, have not exhausted the source of experimental instruction on this subject. There are existing institutions, founded on a similar principle, which merit particular consideration.…
The Advantages of the Revolution
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The advantage, says a correspondent, of the revolution that has taken place in America, to all the lovers of liberty in Europe, must be immense. It seems to be a dispensation of Heaven favorable to them, as Well as…