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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 . http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/cont- cong_07-08-75.asp p. xx: “Life, Liberty . . .” Declaration of Independence. http://www.archives.gov/ 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 . http://avalon.law.yale. edu/18th_century/paris.asp p. xx: “Remember officers and soldiers . . .” McCullough, 1776 , p. 159. p. xx: “We hold these truths . . .” Declaration of Independence. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_ transcript.html

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