A History of the War of 1812
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01J5VXH9A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 465 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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When, in June, 1785, George III. received John Adams as United States Minister at his court, he said: “I was the last man in the kingdom, Sir, to consent to the independence of America; but, now it is granted, I shall be the last man in the world to sanction a violation of it.” If the King was sincere in this declaration, he must have had—as Lincoln said of himself when President—very little influence with the Administration; for, almost from the first, there was systematic disregard of the rights of the new nation, with an evident purpose to humiliate her people and cripple their commerce.It was hard for the British Ministry and British commanders to realize that those whom they had so lately attempted
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