Buy this book on-line PEARSON, KENNETH & CONNOR, PATRICIA: : 1776 - THE BRITISH STORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONLONDON.TIMES BOOKS,1976. ISBN 0723001472.
UK,8vo wraps,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn. Plain red laminated wraps with black ink letters to upper board and to spine/backstrip which is slightly sunned/faded.Minimal shelf-wear to wraps edges.Map front and rear endpapers.Fore-edges slightly aged.UK,8vo wraps,1st edn,231pp includes foreword by Sir Denis Hamilton,Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Times Newspapers Ltd; acknowledgements by P.A Taverner,Exhibition Organiser; an introduction by Kenneth Pearson, Exhibition Director; 26 colour plates,584 b/w plates/illustrations,notes on artists,list of lenders and a select bibliography.
It is most fitting that this exhibition should be held at Greenwich,for it was from the Royal palace once situated on this bend of the Thames that the foundling charters of Virginia and what was then Massachusetts Bay were issued.The connection between Greenwhich and the American colonies is even closer than this would suggest. The Queen's house,now the focal point of the National Maritime Museum complex,was in fact a gift from James 1 to his wife,Queen Anne of Denmark; and in 1616 Inigo Jones was commissioned to build her residence near Greenwhich Palace on the river.
Almost at the same time,3000 miles away,the first permanent English settlement in America was taking root in Virginia - at Jamestown on the James River.And it was the Pilgrim Fathers, sailing from Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620, with a land grant in North Virginia (the colony stretched north then to the New York area),who were driven from their intended landfall by adverse weather conditions,landed at Cape Cod, and sat tight where they were,to create Massachusetts.
An exhibition held in the National Maritime Museum; 14 April to 2 October 1976,to mark the bicentenary of the American Revolution,the largest ever event sponsored by The Times,The Sunday Times and co-sponsors Barclays Bank.
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