American Revolution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...hostility did not produce open struggles. In Jan., 1776, Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet, Common Sense, which urged the colonial...Plains, and took part of his dwindling army into New Jersey. Thomas Paine in a new pamphlet, The Crisis, exhorted the revolutionists...