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representation in, 266; reconvening of, 264;
suppression of, 263; Third Estate of, 258
Brackenridge, Hugh, 761, 769
Brande, Ernst, 701
Brazil, 747–49
Brienne, Loménie de, 342; reaction of to his
May Edicts, 340, 341
Brinton, Crane, 11
Brissot, Jacques- Pierre, 15, 56, 187, 198, 207,
209, 230, 272, 350, 385, 455, 456, 561; ca-
reer of as a pre- Revolutionary intellectual,
419; on the destiny of Dumouriez, 452–54;
experience of with international revolution,
41; fame of during the French Revolution,
196; influence of the American Revolution
on, 196–98; on the problems of revolution-
ary parties in Holland and Belgium, 271.
See also French National Convention
(1792–1795), role of the
Brissot—Dumouriez goup in Bristol, 32
Britain. See Great Britain/England
British America, 24, 38, 39, 71, 115, 116; belief
of colonial Americans that the rights of
Englishmen are the rights of all men, 136;
elected assemblies in, 40; parliaments and
assemblies in, 35–41; population of (1760)
compared to that of Great Britain, 116;
provincial councils of, 38–39; role of the
House of Burgesses, in, 39; slaves in, 24;
structure of colonial government in, 40; and
use of the term “democratic” in colonial
times, 13. See also British North America
British America, before the American Revolu-
tion, 142–48; colonial aristocracy of, 146; de
facto independence of the oldest colonies,
143; distribution of wealth in, 143; inequal-
ities of social rank in, 143; religion in, 145,
145n9
British Constitution, 107–14, 121, 128, 131–
36, 153–54, 319; and the balance/separa-
tion of powers in, 110–14; books concern-
ing, 108; and the classes of government,
111; Delolme’s view of, 110–11
British East India Company, 130, 131, 220
British Mercury, 682, 732, 784
British North America: possibility of revolu-
tion in, 750; as a product of the American
Revolution, 750. See also Canada
British Parliament, 32, 35, 38, 69, 103, 202,
38, 692, 794; absolutism of, 221; and the
“association” movement, 221–27, 230; at-
tempt of to alter the structure of govern-
ment in Massachusetts, 131; constituency
of the House of Commons, 112; critics of
in England and America, 127; and the
doctrine of parliamentary supremacy, 127,
131, 147; House of Commons, 36, 37, 40,
46, 49, 59, 60, 94–107, 693; House of
Lords, 36, 37, 443, 55, 56, 108, 155; recog-
nition of the independence of the United
States by, 107; the role of influence and
favors in, 127–29; statistical analysis of the
House of Commons, 37; tribulations of
(1766–1774), 123–30
Brittany, 33, 34, 61, 70, 71, 114, 343; autonomy
of, 71; conscription of peasants in (affaire
de Bretagne), 70–73; Estates of, 70–71, 94,
335
Broeta, Joseph de, 757
Brolin, Per Erik, 75n14
Brottier, Gabriel (Abbé Brottier), 558
Brown, Robert, 172
Bruges, 258
Brugmans, H., 524
Brune, Guillaume- Marie- Anne, 612, 613, 644,
645, 675, 678, 778, 785–87, 790, 191; dec-
laration of a Rhone Republic by, 676
Brunot, Ferdinand, 15
Brunschwig, H., 700n37
Brunswick Manifesto, 557, 785
Budapest, 294, 296, 475, 496, 767
Buenos Aries, 8
Buonarroti, Filippo, 465, 520–21, 546–49,
549n9, 638, 644, 672; arrest of, 591; and the
promotion of revolution in Italy, 551, 561;
view of royalty, 564
Burgoyne, John, 229–30
Burgundy, 33, 115
Burk, John Daly, 628, 768; emigration of to
America, 719
Burke, Aedanus, 18, 203
Burke, Edmund, 7, 22, 38, 46, 47, 51, 60, 135–
36, 234nn26–27, 236n34, 237n35, 254,
539, 714, 717, 721 726; classic statement of
on Old Whiggery, 129; Conciliation with
the Colonies speech, 134; conservatism of,
51,232–38 passim, 279; on divisions in
America, 158; economic reform measures