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God Save The People By Dr Francis Walett
In 1775 Americans debated loyalty to Britain during war and Canada invasion. Olive Branch Petition failed, taking up arms declared. Loyalists faced hostility as editors urged resistance and King George III drew increasing criticism. A Massachusetts broadside ends with God Save The People, signaling revolutionary sentiment.
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Francis G. Walett
Worcester State College
American Antiquarian Society
Bunker Hill
Canada
Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch
John Dickinson
Pennsylvania
George III
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Dickinson
Britain
North Atlantic
George
James Duane
New York
Edmund Burke
Eames
Williamsburg
Virginia
Lord Dunmore
Chesapeake
Rhode Island
Solomon Southwick
Newport Mercury
The
NEW England Chronicle
Gage
Continental Congress
NEW Hampshire Gazette
Joseph Galloway
Isaac Low
Chronicle
George the Third
Times
Massachusetts Provincial Congress
God
King
America
Connecticut
Massachusetts