The Continental Congress At Princeton

Author : Varnum Lansing Collins
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ISBN 13 : 9781331076711
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Continental Congress at Princeton (Classic Reprint) written by Varnum Lansing Collins and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Continental Congress at Princeton The Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line in June, 1783, and the resulting session of the Continental Congress at Princeton do not bulk large in a general survey of the American Revolution; and accordingly writers on that portion of American history have given scarcely more than passing mention to the incidents leading to the flight of Congress from Philadelphia, and almost without exception have dismissed the session at Princeton with few words. But, on the one hand, it would be difficult to find incidents more significant of the times than those which drove Congress from Philadelphia; while, on the other, many of the scenes witnessed at Princeton during the session of Congress were as memorable, and much of the legislation there enacted was as important, as any immediately succeeding the cessation of Revolutionary hostilities. The inside history, moreover, of the efforts made by the various States to influence, in the light of the mutiny, the great debate at Princeton on the federal residence question has never received detailed consideration. The present volume then is, in the first place, an attempt to arrive at a fuller knowledge of the Congressional history of the Summer and Autumn of 1783. Any narrative of that history, however, if it aim at completeness must prove to be the chronicle of an admixture of work and play. For Congressional life at Princeton was so circumstanced by local conditions and Congressmen absorbed so readily the social and academic influences of the genial Jersey village whither they had betaken themselves, that the full story of their daily doings finds itself following a double thread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.