Peace of 1763• English Victories

led to declaration of peace

Proclamation Line

• Joy on both sides of the Atlantic

• Fireworks, cannons and church bells

• Rev Jonathan Mayhew• Saw the future growth of• “a mighty empire (I

do not mean an Independent one) in numbers little inferior to the greatest in Europe, and in felicity to none”

• Me thinks I see mighty cities rising on every hill, and by the side of every commodious port; mighty fleets alternately sailing out and returning, laden with produce of this, and every other country under heaven; happy fields and villages wherever I turn my eyes, through a vastly extrended territory; there pastures clothed with flocks, and here the vallies cover’d with corn, while the little hills rejoice on every side.

• O happy country! O happy Kingdom!

• Such a crowd of ideas poured in upon my mind that I can scarcely recollect one of them [I feel] as if [I] walked on sacred ground– Benjamin Rush 1768

That’s all folks!

I will be in my office during class time on ThursdayYou can pick up your work then