Excerpt from The American Revolution: Being the Chapters and Passages Relating to AmericaAmerican history, like recent American politics, is to be studied in the light of Europe. European in terests and movements have frequently been the domi nant factors in events of our national history, and the American citizen's intelligence of that history is too meagre if he has his knowledge merely in the study of American subjects from American schoolbooks and American authors. N o doubt American journals and schoolbooks of a past generation - fortunately it is not so true at present have conveyed false and exaggerated conceptions of British despotism and tyranny. The reading of a volume like Mr. Lecky's will do much properly to remove or avoid these harm ful impressions while at the same time it will confirm what is now the conviction of all intelligent English men and Americans alike, that the resistance of the Americans to the mistaken policy of the mother country undoubtedly contributed, as Fox said, to preserve the liberties of mankind. The intelligent reading of our Revolution should lead us to see that.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.