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Excerpt from Peace or War in South Africa The cause of the war of 1775 may be stated in a few words. The King and his Ministers claimed the right of sovereignty over the American Colonies. From this they deduced the right of taxing those colonies for Imperial purposes. The Americans, admitting the abstract right of sovereignty, denied the right of taxation by an English Parliament in which they were not represented. The English Ministers were determined to maintain, defend, and test this right; the Colonists were equally determined to resist its practical exercise. The English, believing that the Americans would yield to pressure, proceeded to coercive measures; and in six years England was defeated, and her American Colonies were lost. It may not be uninteresting or unfruitful to examine in some detail the political and social conditions which preceded and caused the crisis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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