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... North , who was the head of the Treasury , to admit Richard's purchase to be a good one . Horace Walpole ascertained that Richard's lands were worth the enormous sum of one hundred thousand pounds , and North , under pressure from Fox ...
... North , who was the head of the Treasury , to admit Richard's purchase to be a good one . Horace Walpole ascertained that Richard's lands were worth the enormous sum of one hundred thousand pounds , and North , under pressure from Fox ...
Page 108
... North and Thurlow , but that they had ignored his appeals . In the Autumn of 1781 the war in America was brought to an end by the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown in Virginia . The news reached England at the end of ...
... North and Thurlow , but that they had ignored his appeals . In the Autumn of 1781 the war in America was brought to an end by the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown in Virginia . The news reached England at the end of ...
Page 119
... North and all his works . They had both threatened North with impeachment on account of his American policy , and Burke once went to the length of drawing up formal Articles of Impeachment which Rockingham wisely took from him and ...
... North and all his works . They had both threatened North with impeachment on account of his American policy , and Burke once went to the length of drawing up formal Articles of Impeachment which Rockingham wisely took from him and ...
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