Excerpt from A History of the American Revolution: Intended as a Reading-Book for Schools To render more perfect our knowledge of any particular Country or government, together with the political principles by which they are actuated in the management of their national affairs, it is high lv important that we should make ourselves acquaint ed with their origin, and the causes which induced their establishment as an independent nation. And when this knowledge relates to our own country, it becomes doubly important and interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.