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The Economist
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:35:47 -0700
In his latest book, “Bunker Hill”, he examines how the 18th-century equivalent of today's spin doctors played a crucial role in the incendiary incidents in and around Boston that led up to the first and bloodiest battle of the American war of independence.
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Wall Street Journal
Thu, 23 May 2013 12:38:27 -0700
There, repeated state bankruptcies forced creditors to suffer cuts in interest rates and repeated extensions of maturities. In 1770, the state defaulted. After its costly involvement in the American War of Independence, the French elite decided to ...
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New York Times (blog)
Fri, 03 May 2013 17:58:30 -0700
In their eyes, they were fighting a second American War of Independence, and it was victory in pitched battle that had won the first War of Independence, most especially the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, which earned the Americans rebels the one thing ...
|  Telegraph.co.uk |
Telegraph.co.uk
Mon, 20 May 2013 23:01:32 -0700
British statesmen were also convinced that colonial possessions were central to their standing in the state system. But when London sought to extend the state across the Atlantic, without consulting the colonists, it provoked the American War of ...
|  Siliconindia.com |
Siliconindia.com
Wed, 15 May 2013 05:51:22 -0700
During his initial days, he earned his living by farming. His interest towards politics dragged him so deep in the 'American War of Independence' that he had to leave his farms in Kent. In 1978, he came to the U.S. and started learning the trade of ...
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Citywire.co.uk
Mon, 20 May 2013 07:30:10 -0700
Another British property tax, bricks were first taxed from 1784 to help pay the national debt accrued fighting the American War of Independence. To reduce the impact of the tax, manufacturers initially increased the size of bricks causing the ...
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Financial Times
Fri, 17 May 2013 10:36:08 -0700
Though these displays of unrest were largely peaceful, in the context of the recent revolution in France and the American War of Independence they made the government, and particularly the King, profoundly uneasy. The Tories believed that giving in to ...
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The Independent
Fri, 17 May 2013 16:01:10 -0700
... actor in Hollywood) have included the priest in Neil Jordan's 1999 adaptation of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, a sadistic British officer in the Mel Gibson American War of Independence costumer, The Patriot, and a US Ranger in Black Hawk Down.
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