Author
Peterson; Merrill
Year
1976
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Language
English
Pages
28
ISBN
978-0-82035-904-5
Last Update
01-Nov-2024
Keywords
History ; Political Science ; American Studies
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson first met in june 1775 at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The Battle of Bunker Hill had just been fought in Adams’ Boston. Amidst martial pomp and fanfare Congress dispatched General George Washington to take command of the continental forces rallying near there. Catching the sense of Congress, Jefferson wrote to friends in Virginia that “the war is now heartily entered into, without a prospect of accommodation but thro’ the effectual interposition of arms.”¹ The war had begun. Incipient revolutionary governments were in being in both Massachusetts and Virginia. But whether American independence would...
