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...hour action, Moultrie and 435 men inflicted heavy losses upon a strong British naval squadron under the command of Commodore Sir Peter Parker (two ships of the line, six frigates, the bomb ketch Thunder and more than 30 other vessels). This forced Parker's fleet and several thousand British regular troops under Major General Sir Henry Clinton to give up a combined land-and-sea attack on Fort Sullivan near Charles Town...
...business by rioters. "All law and government, here as well as elsewhere, seems now nearly at an end," said Sir James Wright, the Royal Governor of Georgia, shortly before quitting the Colonies. Better one tyrant 3,000 miles away, says Boston Minister Mather Byles, than "three thousand tyrants not a mile away...
...chief architect of the Virginia constitution is a crotchety and reluctant statesman, an heir to a plantation of thousands of acres and many slaves, who yet is one of the most dogged champions of individual rights. His name: George Mason. Afflicted with gout, he rode into Williamsburg almost two weeks late, yet he was instantly installed as a member of the committee to draw up a declaration of rights. With typical impatience, he declared that he found the committee "according to custom overcharged with useless members" who could be expected to offer "a thousand ridiculous and impracticable proposals." Mason promptly...
This selfish British mercantilism has been remarkably effective in protecting and promoting British manufacturing. British exports to the Colonies have multiplied twelvefold since the beginning of this century, from £344 thousand to £4.2 million in the peak year of 1771, while American exports only tripled, to £1.3 million. The actual trade deficit with England was running at an annual rate of £1.6 million in the first half of this decade. And the American dependence was real enough, with Britain and its West Indian colonies taking most of colonial exports?tobacco, flour, fish, rice, indigo, in that...
...Lawrence, set up feeding programs for starving huskies near the Arctic Circle and aided animals that survived an earthquake in Peru, floods in Italy and a hurricane in Honduras. But Noah II, which is scheduled to last until Christmastime, is in financial trouble. Letters to nearly a thousand top U.S. corporations asking for contributions have produced little cash, and the $40,000 that has been spent to date on Noah II has come, according to Walsh, largely from quarters and dollars sent by schoolchildren. "Perhaps the United Nations should take over this sort of work," he says sadly...