In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted—the design on my part to free the slaves... Now if it deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life . . . and mingle my blood further with the blood . . . of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel and unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done. —John Brown, 1859 To which event is John Brown referring?

americans had many intangible advantages. well since the british fought a war far from home military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations, and the british had an extremely difficult objective. they had to persuade the americans to give up their claims of independence, americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. this cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence.

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britain's king george iii, however, refused to receive the petition, which, written we consider whom we must oppose in this contest, and if it continues, what may the fundamental grounds upon which americans were taking up arms had shifted. that king george refused to so much as receive the