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NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Lower edge rubbed, owner name on front free . endpaper, jacket chipped, worn, pieces missing.. 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with deckled fore-edge. ix, 467pp. Black and white photos and illustrations, appendix, sources and acknowledgments, chapter references, and index. The story of fifteen of the most critical years in American history when a council without powers, composed of traitors with their heads in a noose, governed a parcel of jealous colonies and out of them forged a nation. (front jacket flap) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
The Reluctant Rebels by Lynn Montross - 1950: The Story Of The Continental Congress 1774-1789
by Lynn Montross
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The Reluctant Rebels: The Story Of The Continental Congress 1774-1789
by Lynn Montross
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"The temperature at Philadelphia was exactly 70 degrees at six o'clock on the morning of July 2, 1776. During the next three hours it rose eight degrees, and the afternoon had turned hot and humid when the delegates gathered again in the State House.
These statistics were noted by a tall, redheaded Virginian who took readings thrice daily with the new thermometer he had purchased at a cost of three pounds and fifteen shillings. Thomas Jefferson also remembered to the end of his long life the bothersome horseflies which buzzed through the open windows from a near by livery stable and hastened a vote on the issue:
Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and, of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them, and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...." - Chapter One from The Reluctant Rebels
"The temperature at Philadelphia was exactly 70 degrees at six o'clock on the morning of July 2, 1776. During the next three hours it rose eight degrees, and the afternoon had turned hot and humid when the delegates gathered again in the State House.
These statistics were noted by a tall, redheaded Virginian who took readings thrice daily with the new thermometer he had purchased at a cost of three pounds and fifteen shillings. Thomas Jefferson also remembered to the end of his long life the bothersome horseflies which buzzed through the open windows from a near by livery stable and hastened a vote on the issue:
Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and, of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them, and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...." - Chapter One from The Reluctant Rebels
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- Edition First
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- Publisher Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication New York, New York
- Date Published 1950
- Keywords Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe
- Size Medium Octavo
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The Reluctant Rebels: The Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
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1950. MONTROSS, Lynn. The Reluctant Rebels: The Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. N.Y., [1950]. 1st ed. Illus. 467pp. Fine in d/j.
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