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A retrospect of the Boston tea-party, with a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a survivor of the little band of patriots who drowned the tea in Boston harbour in 1773 at the Internet Archive; Traits of the tea party : being a memoir of George R.T. Hewes, one of the last of its survivors at the Internet Archive
When Hewes replied that at least he had never been tarred and feathered himself, Malcolm struck Hewes hard on the forehead with the cane and knocked him unconscious. [4] That night, a crowd seized Malcolm in his house and dragged him into King Street to punish him for the attack on Hewes and the boy. Some Patriot leaders who believed mob ...
Joseph Hewes (July 9, 1730 [1] [a] – November 10, 1779 [3] [4]) was an American Founding Father and a signer of the Continental Association and U.S. Declaration of Independence. [5] Hewes was a native of Princeton, New Jersey , where he was born in 1730.
Joseph Hewes (1730–1779), signer of the United States Declaration of Independence USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50), a ship acquired by the US Navy 8 January 1942 and sunk 11 November 1942; USS Joseph Hewes (FF-1078), a Knox class frigate launched 7 March 1970 and transferred to Taiwan in 1999; Bettie Hewes (1921–2001), Canadian politician
On the evening of 7 April 1775, he made a famous statement: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." [8] The line was not, as is widely believed, about patriotism in general but rather what Johnson saw as the false use of the term "patriotism" by William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (the prime minister) and his supporters. Johnson opposed ...
In the general patriotism of the country they form a sort of island of dissident thought. England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English ...
March 3, 1817. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. "President Monroe's Veto Message". May 4, 1822. Archived from the original on February 11, 2018. "President Monroe's Views of the President of the United States on the Subject of Internal Improvements". May 4, 1822. Archived from the original on February 5, 2018.
In his review of the book in The Wall Street Journal, Brendan Miniter called a Patriot's History a "fluent account of America from the discovery of the Continent up to the present day", [8] and wrote that the book serves to "remind us what a few good individuals can do in just a few short centuries." [9]