Peterborough New Hampshire in the American Revolution (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Peterborough New Hampshire in the American Revolution In all great crises like the American Revolution or the Civil War, the daily life and industrial condition of the people concerned in the struggle, their responsibilities and burdens imposed by passing events, their economic situation and the spirit and temper they brought to the discharge of the duties laid upon them by the conflict, are always fruitful fields for historical investigation and study. Hence this effort to tell what the people of Peterborough did during the War for Independence, how they lived and how they discharged the obligations demanded of them by the needs of the time. It has not been the intent of the writer to give a history of the Revolution or to re-write the story of its many battles and campaigns. Some documents of the period have been inserted which exhibit the stress of a particular military emergency, and which set forth the views and opinions of leading men upon the crisis then impending, or which describe the hardships of the men during campaigns in which Peterborough had many soldiers engaged. All these throw light upon the situation as it directly affected the people of the town, and furnish the motives and explain the causes which spurred them to the action they took to meet a condition of affairs they were called to face and answer. 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.