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Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 7: April 17, 1925 Moreover, there was the war debt to consider. Oust ing the French from America had cost Great Britain more than of which nearly had been added to the national debt. The exchequer was hard up and naturally enough sought to raise more money from Colonial trade. Parliament tinkered with customs duties, thereby rousing the Colonial merchants, and then it applied the Stamp Act, which aroused the common people. 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.