John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... Paul Smith estimated that about 19,000 men actually fought with the British against the rebels and about 20 percent of white Americans could be classified as loyalists. (Smith, 269) On the battlefield, it was the fighting between the loyalist Tories and the continental rebel armies that were the most hostile. ...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... Paul Smith estimated that about 19,000 men actually fought with the British against the rebels and about 20 percent of white Americans could be classified as loyalists. (Smith, 269) On the battlefield, it was the fighting between the loyalist Tories and the continental rebel armies that were the most hostile. ...

• Word Count: 1702
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Physiocrats exerted a profound influence on Adam Smith, who had spent time in France in the 1760s and whose classic "The Wealth of Nations" embodied the Physiocratic attack on mercantilism and argued that nations get rich by practicing free trade. Of Smith, Turgot, and the Physiocrats, the great French political leader and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) wrote: The basis of their whole economic system may be truly said to lie in the principle of self-interest. . .. ...

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Four British leaders figure prominently: Charles, Earl Cornwallis, John Burgoyne, Lord North, and King George III. ... When he was nineteen, he secured a highly coveted post for anyone desirous of promotion when he became aide-de-camp to Lieutenant General John Manners, Marquess of Granby. ...

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