Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dorothy Q: Together With a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books March 7, 2018)
Excerpt from Dorothy Q: Together With a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill BattleThe tax on tea, which was considered so odious and led to the act on which A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party is founded, was but a small matter, only two fience in the pound. But it involved a principle of taxation, to which the Colonies would not submit. Their objection was not to the amount, but the claim. The East India Company, however, sent out a number of tea-ships to diferent A mer ican fiorts, three of them to Boston.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.
- ISBN
- 0364085231 / 9780364085233
- Pages
- 132
- Weight
- 11.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.4
in.