Loyalist as Royalist, Patriot as Puritan: The American Revolution as a Repetition of the English Civil Wars

Patriots at the beginning of the American Revolution were conscious of participating in a tradition of liberty derived from their Puritan forefathers. Not only did they refer back to the crossing of the sea by their ancestors who “bravely threw themselves upon the bosom of the ocean, determined to f...

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Main Author: Spalding, James C (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1976
In: Church history
Year: 1976, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 329-340
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