It would be a century later before England would approve the formation of the colony Jamestown, where John Smith would become a prominent figure. After the death of the original president of Jamestown, John Smith took over in 1608. Smith's main goal was to make survival among the settlers the main priority rather than finding gold. ... John Smith wrote A Description of New England in order to try and promote colonization of this new territory. ... Smith, John. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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Entrepreneurship is the path I want to embark in life, so witnessing Adam Smith advocate laissez-faire in the changing economic system of the time is something that catches my interest. ... Another one of my favorite works of art from Romanticism is, The Hay Wain, by John Constable. ...

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