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Chapter Notes
p. xx: “The first Man . . .” Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of
New York City to 1898 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 199.
p. xx: “full power and authority . . .” Edmund Sears Morgan, ed., Prologue to Revolu-
tion: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764–1766 (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959), p. 155.
p. xx: “The die is now cast . . .” Don Cook, The Long Fuse: How England Lost the
American Colonies, 1760–1785 (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995),
p. 197.
p. xx: “exert every power . . .” Frank E. Grizzard, George Washington: A Biographi-
cal Companion (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002), p. 378.
p. xx: “A few more such victories . . .” Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who
Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate
of the Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 86.
p. xx: “a happy and permanent . . .” Journals of the Continental Congress—Petition
to the King; July 8, 1775. The Avalon Project : Documents in Law, His-
tory and Diplomacy.
cong_07-08-75.asp
p. xx: “Life, Liberty . . .” Declaration of Independence.
exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
p. xx: “an absolute Tyranny,” Ibid.
p. xx: “Our hopes are not placed . . .” John E. Ferling, The First of Men: A Life of
George Washington (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 132.
p. xx: “I am wearied . . .” David McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster,
2005), p. 244.
p. xx: “The fact is . . .” Ibid., p. 251.
p. xx: “These are the times . . .” David Freeman Hawke, Paine (New York: Harper &
Row, 1974), p. 59.
p. xx: “Nothing can be more wretched . . .” Terry Golway, Washington’s General:
Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New
York: Henry Holt, 2006), p. 239.
p. xx: “free, sovereign . . .” The Definitive Treaty of Peace 1783. The Avalon Project :
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.
edu/18th_century/paris.asp
p. xx: “Remember officers and soldiers . . .” McCullough, 1776, p. 159.
p. xx: “We hold these truths . . .” Declaration of Independence.
transcript.html