Project Gutenberg 2005-03-07 Public domain in the USA. 88 Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 Pain, Thomas A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up Reading ease score: 47.5 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by Steven Gibbs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America" by Thomas Paine is a historical account written in the late 18th century. This work serves as a response to the Abbe Raynal’s commentary on the American Revolution, aiming to correct perceived inaccuracies in his portrayal. Paine critiques both the misunderstandings and misinterpretations of American sentiments and actions during this pivotal time in history. The opening of the text outlines Paine’s motivations for addressing the Abbe Raynal, emphasizing the need for historical accuracy in the context of the American Revolution. Paine argues that the Abbe has misconstrued the causes and nature of the conflict between America and Britain, claiming that essential factors leading to the revolution were either misrepresented or ignored. He asserts the importance of understanding the genuine grievances of the American colonies and critiques the Abbe's historical narrative as overly simplistic and partially erroneous. Throughout the initial passages, Paine sets a combative yet enlightening tone, indicating a strong desire to establish a truthful account of the burgeoning American identity and independence. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796. Révolution de l'Amérique E201 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 176756 176771 2024-10-07T04:50:38.128891 2023-09-07T06:41:39.367849 text/html text/html 173911 2020-12-14T06:53:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 62260 2020-12-14T06:53:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 174955 2024-10-07T04:50:45.867867 application/epub+zip 175057 2024-10-07T04:50:42.384961 application/epub+zip 123769 2024-10-07T04:50:40.937841 application/epub+zip 418427 2024-10-07T04:50:48.371816 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 404712 2024-10-07T04:50:44.907907 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 153846 2022-09-07T20:54:50.835179 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 159895 159842 2024-10-07T04:50:37.704867 2023-09-07T06:41:39.056830 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 159674 2020-12-14T06:53:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 59000 2020-12-14T06:53:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 159666 2020-12-14T06:53:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 58975 2020-12-14T06:53:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21916 2024-10-07T04:50:48.538848 application/rdf+xml 26822 2024-10-07T04:50:41.489847 image/jpeg 4813 2024-10-07T04:50:41.212837 image/jpeg 172166 2024-10-07T04:50:38.145926 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia