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...m’s Sermon,” now regarded as the most famous piece of literature produced in Colonial America. Meantime Franklin was concerning himself more and more ... ... there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his return to America he played an honorable part... ...tion of its value as a pic ture of one of the most notable personalities of Colonial times, and of its acknowledged rank as one of the great autobiog... ...e reconciled to the thought that the letter might fall into the hands of the British, lest some printer or busy body should publish some part of the c... ...t a part of it. On search he found that part quoted at length, in one of the British Reviews, from a discourse of Dr. Foster’s. This detec tion gave ... ...selves as soon as they could with arms, formed themselves into companies and regiments, chose their own officers, and met every week to be instructed ... ...and ever after bore for me the most cordial and affectionate friendship. The British government, not chusing to permit the union of the colonies as pr... ... at this time being entertain’d of them, sent over General Braddock with two regiments of regular English troops for that purpose. He landed at Alexan... ...’d, and the kindness acknowledg’d by letters to me from the colonels of both regiments, in the most grateful terms. The general, too, was highly satis...

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...This volume is a collection of articles written by Frank A. Gardner, M. D., giving the organization and history of all the Massachusetts Regiments which took part in the war of the Revolution. They were published quarterly in The Massachusetts Magazine from 1908-1918. ...

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... 11: Colonel Thomas Gardner’s Regiment Chapter 12: Colonel Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment Chapter 13: General William Heath’s and Colonel John Greaton’s Regiments Chapter 14: Colonel Ebenezer Learned’s Regiment Chapter 15: Colonel Paul Dudley’s Regiment Chapter 16: Colonel John Mansfield’s Regiment Chapter 17: Colonel Asa Whitcomb’s Regiment Chapter 18: Colonel John Nixo...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...Rusborough’s treasure lay in such coins, gold and silver, from the Spanish colonial mints. Lady Carbery at this period made an effort to teach me Hebr... ...ng men, aged severally sixteen and seventeen years, went out to join their regiments, both regiments be- ing on the Bengal establishment. Very differe... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...s, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resume, therefore, my own thread of personal narra- tion. On ... ...ion; yet, for all that, such was the regard to a pious inauguration of all colonial enterprises, that no one provision or pledge of pros- perity was h... ...have carried their money to Delphi. Nay, it is certain that even where the colonial coun- sels of the greater oracles seemed extravagant, though a lar... ...t of his, though counting amongst their number many deserters from veteran regiments; but the horses of their own party were in general poor and out o...

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... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ...me that these were men going on furlough, or on special occasions; for the regiments were of course not received by ordinary passenger trains. 72 Nor... ...er furnished I did not hear; but it was openly stated that the colonels of regiments received large gratuities from certain railway companies for the ... ...appointments of officers. All the regimental appointments to the volunteer regiments— and that is practically to the whole body of the army*— are made... ...d colony, to- gether with the liberties and laws given to it under its old colonial charter. A union might be and no doubt was desirable; but it was t...

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...ked as unprosperous a speculation as Dr. Darwin’s scheme for improving our British climate by hauling out all the ice- bergs from the polar basin in s... ...ortation from this or that particular quar- ter, passes into a question of colonial rights. Arrangements of convenience for the management of the paup... ...he Hindoo races, now so entirely dependent upon our wisdom and justice, we British* immediately, by our solemnity of investigation, tes- *It may be th... ...ication. But, in the Christian Scriptures, the rules a case of injury to a colonial child, whom the general mother was bound to protect and avenge; bu... ...tural recognition of witchcraft as a Precisely in that way it was that the British witch operated. She, by her eye, blighted the natural powers of gro... ...der the knowledge that Obi had been set for him. Justly, therefore, do our colonial courts punish the Obeah sorcerer, who (though an impos- tor) is no... ...e of Maida in Calabria. They com- posed a force equal to about six English regiments of infan- try on the common establishment. Every man of these fou...

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...ngland persecutors was effectual in preventing further martyrdoms; but the colonial authorities, trusting in the remoteness of their situation, and pe... ...ene which has never yet been satisfactorily explained. The officers of the British army, and the loyal gentry of the prov- ince, most of whom were col... ...lfered from some receptacle of the cast-off clothes of both the French and British armies. Portions of their attire had probably been worn at the sieg... ...n in- terview in the mock heroic style, between the rebel warriors and the British commander-in-chief, was received with im- mense applause, which cam... ...h gay and lightsome melodies. The man was drum-major to one of the British regiments. “Dighton,” demanded the general, “what means this fool- ery? Bid... ...ad received intelligence of the arrival of a British fleet, bringing three regiments from Halifax to overawe the insubordination of the people. These ... ... found few opportunities of gratifying in the undecorated dwellings of the colonial gentry. It was said that the early productions of her own pencil e... ... of Castle William must be occupied by the royal troops. The two remaining regiments shall be billeted in the town, or encamped upon the Common. It is... ... now all but extinguished, class, whose attachment to royalty , and to the colonial institutions and customs that were connected with it, had never yi...

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...d of moral convictions, that negro sla very has been put an end to in the British Empire and else where. The serfs in Russia owe their emancipation,... ...stitutional law should itself give them this mas tery. It does not in the British Constitution. But what it does give practically amounts to this: th... ...s is not always apparent on the face of the political institutions. In the British Constitution, each of the three co ordinate members of the sovereig... ...eneral of India or British America, and all who had held for ten years any colonial gov ernorships. The permanent civil service should also be repre ... ...edience to orders. A government thus supported, by keeping its Hun garian regiments in Italy and its Italian in Hungary, can long continue to rule in... ...egulated. This practice was a natural corollary from the vicious theory of colonial policy—once common to all Europe, and not yet completely relinquis... ...t. We were wise enough not to re quire a second warning. A new era in the colonial policy of nations began with Lord Durham’s Report; the imperishabl...