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  2. 1776 (book) - Wikipedia

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    1776 (released in the United Kingdom as 1776: America and Britain at War) [1] is a book written by David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005. The work is a companion to McCullough's earlier biography of John Adams, and focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolutionary War.

  3. 1776 in literature - Wikipedia

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    David Dalrymple – Annals of Scotland; Edward Gibbon – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 1; Oliver Goldsmith – A Survey of Experimental Philosophy; Sir John Hawkins – A General History of the Science and Practice of Music; David Herd – Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs

  4. The Wealth of Nations - Wikipedia

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    In 1810, a correspondent writing under the pseudonym of Publicola included at the head of his letter Smith's line that "Exclusive Companies are nuisances in every respect" and called him "that learned writer". [39] In 1812, Robert Southey of the Quarterly Review condemned The Wealth of Nations as a "tedious and hard-hearted book". [37]

  5. 1776 letter by Junipero Serra outlined his plan for ...

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    The 248-year-old letter was written in the same month as the Declaration of Independence was adopted. It’s going up for auction. 1776 letter by Junipero Serra outlined his plan for California ...

  6. The Pennsylvania Evening Post - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Towne published the first issue of the Post on January 24, 1775, [6] using paper borrowed from James Humphreys without expectation of payment. [7] The paper was supportive of the cause of the American Revolution, [6] and was the first to publish the United States Declaration of Independence, with it taking up the front page of the July 6, 1776 issue.

  7. 1776 (film) - Wikipedia

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    According to biographer David McCullough, Adams was one of the most respected members of Congress in 1776. Adams's often-quoted description of himself in Congress as "obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular" is from a letter written 46 years later in 1822, [ 16 ] after his unpopular presidency had likely colored his view of the past.

  8. United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    Jefferson's most immediate sources were two documents written in June 1776: his own draft of the preamble of the Constitution of Virginia, and George Mason's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Ideas and phrases from both of these documents appear in the Declaration of Independence. [74] [22]: 125–126 Mason's opening was: Section 1.

  9. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    [4]: 333–334 [21] Lord Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Colonies, might have suspected Benjamin Franklin of authoring the letters, as Franklin related to his son in a letter: "My Lord H. mentioned the Farmer's letters to me, said he had read them, that they were well written, and he believed he could guess who was the author, looking ...

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