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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: part of the foundation for this bill. A moment's attention to the history of that period will show the true ground of the appropriation. After this unequal pressure had continued nearly three years.?after the officers had sustained their spirits, during that trying period. under such disadvantages, by the force of those principles that led them at first to join in the pledge to the cause of their lives, their fortunes. and their sacred honor, ?after their private resources had become nearly exhausted in supplying those wants which their country was unable, rather than unwilling, to satisfy, ?there arose a state of things which led to certain proceedings by Congress in relation to half pay. The prospect had nearly vanished that any honorable accommodation could be effected with the parent country. The contest seemed likely to become more severe, and to be protracted for many years; and it was obvious that many of the officers, thus impoverished and disheartened, must actually resign, in order to provide themselves with decent clothing, and to maintain their families, and secure any subsistence for advanced life, or that they must receive some assurance of future indemnity, if they continued in service, and abandoned everything else to sink or swim with the military destinies of their country. It was then that the resolve of May 15th, 1778, granting half pay, for only seven years, to all who continued in service till the close of the war, was passed. This short period of half pay was dictated rather by the inability of Congress to provide a longer one than from an impression that it was, in truth, sufficient, or in accordance with any similar system in the armies of Europe. Hence, a committee, May 24th, 1779, reported a resolution allowing half pay for life to the same cla..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217956512
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 308
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217956513
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 553 gr

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