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Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?”
Editor's note · Context
In this rhetorical question, Beveridge suggests that mobs played a crucial role in the American Revolution.
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