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Title: History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)

Author: E. Benjamin Andrews

Release Date: September 10, 2007 [EBook #22567]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's Notes]

The debt of England caused by the French and Indian War of 140,000,000
Pounds sterling is equivalent to about 19,000,000,000 Pounds in 2006.

Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" is available at
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/comsn10a.txt

[1492-1495] indicate the following text covers this period, until the
next such appearance.

This is a list or unfamiliar (to me) words.

abatis
Defensive obstacle made by laying felled trees on top of each other
with branches, sometimes sharpened, facing the enemy.

appanage
Land or other source of revenue for the maintenance of a member of the
family of a ruling house. Whatever belongs rightfully to one's rank or
station in life. Natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct. From the
Latin "panis"--bread or "apanar"--to nourish.

Aristides
Athenian statesman and general who fought at Marathon and Salamis. A
central figure in the confederation known as the Delian League.

encomia
Formal expression of praise; eulogy; tribute.

entails
To limit the inheritance of property to a specified succession of
heirs.

exigency
Requiring much effort or immediate action; urgent; pressing.

finical
Exacting about details; finicky; fussy; very particular.

indite
Compose or write.

lief
Gladly; willingly.

mooted
Hypothetical case argued by law students as an exercise. An ancient
English meeting of the freemen of a shire. To discuss or debate.

recreant
Cowardly, craven, unfaithful, disloyal, traitorous, apostate,
renegade.

subaltern
Lower in position or rank. British military rank below captain.

primogeniture
System of inheritance by the eldest son.

whilom
Former; erstwhile; at one time.

[End Transcriber's Notes]

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