The March of Folly_ From Troy to Vietnam - Barbara Wertheim Tuchman [251]
The well-known events and developments of British politics, of colonial affairs leading to the Revolution and of the War of the Revolution itself are not annotated as they can easily be found in the relevant sources listed above. References are reserved for quotations and for the comparatively less well-known facts and incidents. The source for biographical facts and matters of personality, if not otherwise stated, may be understood to be the DNB or Valentine’s Establishment. Statements in Parliament may be found under the given date in the relevant volumes of Hansard’s Parliamentary History: XVI (Jan 1765–Nov 1770), XVII (Feb 1771–Jan 1774), XVIII (Nov 1774–Oct 1776), XIX (Jan 1777–Dec 1778).
1. Who’s In, Who’s Out
1. BURKE, “THE RETENTION OF AMERICA”: q. Allen, 239.
2. “TO FIX UPON US …”: q. Knollenberg, Origin, 91. “IN PROPER SUBJECTION”: ibid., 92, 318, n. 17.
3. “PARLIAMENTARY CABALS”: q. Brooke, 226.
4. “TORRENT OF IMPETUOUS ELOQUENCE”: JOHN ADAMS, Q. BAILYN, ORDEAL, 56.
5. 1732, “PARLIAMENT WOULD FIND IT …”: q. Morgan, Stamp Act, 4.
6. WALPOLE, “NO! IT IS TOO HAZARDOUS …”: q. Jesse, I, 251.
7. PITT, “THE POOREST MAN”: Hansard, XV, 1307.
8. DASHWOOD, KNOWLEDGE OF FIGURES: Rockingham, Memoirs, I, 117. “PEOPLE WILL POINT AT ME …”: q. Walpole, Memoirs, I, 152.
9. GEORGE III, “LORD NORTH CANNOT SERIOUSLY THINK”: q. Pares, 57.
10. GRENVILLE, “THE ABLEST MAN OF BUSINESS”: Walpole, Memoirs, IV, 188.
11. MRS. ARMSTEAD: Valentine, Germain, 471, n. 3.
12. 23 ELDEST SONS OF PEERS: Namier, Structure, 2.
13. GEORGE SELWYN NEVER WENT TO BARBADOS: Laver, 73.
14. SHELBURNE, “THE ONLY PLEASURE”: q. Fitzmaurice, I, 88.
15. WALPOLE, “PASSION FOR THE FRONT RANK”: Memoirs, II, 164.
16. SHELBURNE, “COME DOWN WITH THEIR LOUNGING OPINIONS”: q. in Grafton, I ntroduction by Anson, xxxiv.
17. LADIES ADVERTISED THEIR CARD PARTIES: Sherson, 44.
18. VILLAGE OF STOWE RELOCATED: Hyams, 15. PLANTINGS AT KNOLE: Valentine, Germain, 5.
19. ROME’S GOVERNMENT “THE WORST POSSIBLE”: q. Mead, 317.
20. DARTMOUTH SAT FOR EIGHTEEN PORTRAITS: Bargar, 6.
21. DR. JOHNSON, “BUT TWO MEN”: q. Lecky, III, 385–6.
22. PITT, “COWED FOR LIFE”: q. Fitzmaurice, I, 72.
23. MANSFIELD, “YOU COULD NOT ENTERTAIN ME”: q. Hoffman, 11.
24. WALDEGRAVE ON GEORGE HI: q. Brooke, 222; Namier, Crossroads, 131.
25. GEORGE III ON KING ALFRED: q. Namier, England, 93.
26. “BLACKEST OF HEARTS” AND “SNAKE IN THE GRASS”: q. Watson, 4.
27. ADMIRAL ANSON, “I MUST NOW BEG”: q. Namier, Structure, 34.
28. LORD NORTH’S INSTRUCTIONS IN ELECTION OF 1774: q. Trevelyan, I, 201.
29. YORKSHIRE M.P. “SAT TWELVE HOURS”: q. Namier, Crossroads, 32.
30. RICHARD JACKSON, “I HAVE ACCESS TO”: Letters and Papers of Franklin and Jackson, 138.
31. BOARD OF TRADE ASKED TO ADVISE ON “LEAST BURTHENSOME”: Beer, 275.
32. GRENVILLE, “ALL MEN WISH NOT TO BE TAXED”: q. ibid., 285.
33. WALPOLE ON GRANBY: Memoirs, IV, 179.
34. FOX, “TEN BOTTLES OF WINE”: q. Trevelyan, I, 205.
35. WALPOLE ON EGREMONT: q. Valentine, Establishment, II, 950.
36. “TO THE INFINITE PREJUDICE”: q. Knollenberg, Origin, 105.
37. 6500 TONS OF FLOUR: T. H. White, Age of Scandal (London, 1950), 32.
38. WOLFE ON AMERICAN SOLDIERS: q. Knollenberg, Origin, I, 120, 330, n. 17. AMHERST ON SAME: ibid., 120. GENERAL MURRAY ON SAME: Letters from America, 1775–80 of a Scots Officer, Sir James Murray, During the War of American Independence, ed. Eric Robson. Manchester University Press, 1951. GENERAL CLARKE, “WITH A THOUSAND GRENADIERS”: q. Benjamin Franklin, Writings, IX, 261.
39. DIFFERENT NATURE OF MILITARY SERVICE: This point, drawn from impressive original research, has been made very persuasively by F. W. Anderson in “Why Did Colonial New Englanders Make Bad Soldiers?,” William and Mary Quarterly, XXXVIII, No. 3, July 1981, 395–414.
40. FOOTNOTE ON FRANKLIN’S MOTIVATION: suggested by Knollenberg, Origin, 155.
41. “IN GOD’S NAME”: Morgan, Stamp Act, 54, n. 3.
42. RESISTANCE TO POLICE FORCE AND CENSUS: Jarrett, 34, 36.
43. THE SPEAKER ON THE CENSUS WAS SIR WILLIAM THORNTON IN PARLIAMENT: Hansard, XIV, 1318–22.
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