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7493. REVOLUTION (American), Resources of.—[continued].

The submission of the
States would not have been effected but by a
long course of disasters, and such, too, as were
irreparable in their nature. Their resources
were great, and their determination so rooted,
that they would have tried the last of them.—
Notes on M. Soules's Work. Washington ed. ix, 297. Ford ed., iv, 305.
(P. 1786)