The Two Admirals A Tale Of The Sea

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484121361
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Two Admirals written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Two Admirals: A Tale of the Sea Then, if he were my brother's, My brother might not claim him nor your father, Being none of his, refuse him This concludes My mother's son did get your father's heir Your father's heir must have your father's land - King jofin. The events we are about to relate occurred near the middle of the last century, previously even to that struggle which it is the fashion of America to call the old French War. The ogningxfitene of our tale, however, must be sought in the other hemisphere, and on the'coast of the mother country. In the middle of 'the eighteenth century, the American colonies were models of loyalty; the very war, to which there has just been allusion, caus ing the great expenditure that induced the ministry to have recourse to the system of taxation which terminated in the Revolution. The family quarrel had not yet com menced. Intensely occupied with the conflict, which terminated not more gloriously for the British arms than advantageously for the British American possessions, the inhabitants of the provinces were perhaps never better dis posed to the metropolitan state, than at the very period of which we are about to write. All their early predilec tions seemed to be gaining strength, instead of becoming weaker; and, as in nature, the calm is known to succeed the tempest, the blind attachment of the colony to the parent country was but a precursor of the alienation and violent disunion that were so soon to follow. 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.