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  2. List of pamphlet wars - Wikipedia

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    1517 — The Protestant Reformation — Martin Luther's 95 Theses is simply the most famous salvo in a prolonged pamphlet war that ended up triggering the secession of much of Europe from the Catholic Church (and later reform of that organization), after similar efforts had failed in the past without the printing press to support them.

  3. Pamphlet wars - Wikipedia

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    Pamphlet wars became viable platforms for this protracted discussion with the advent and spread of the printing press. Cheap printing presses, and increased literacy made the late 17th century a key stepping stone for the development of pamphlet wars, a period of prolific use of this type of debate.

  4. Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

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    A fierce pamphlet war also resulted, in which Paine was defended and assailed in dozens of works. [78] The authorities aimed, with ultimate success, to force Paine out of Great Britain. He was then tried in absentia and found guilty, but he was beyond the reach of British law. The French translation of Rights of Man, Part II was published in ...

  5. Revolution Controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Revolution Controversy was a British debate over the French Revolution from 1789 to 1795. [1] A pamphlet war began in earnest after the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which defended the House of Bourbon, the French aristocracy, and the Catholic Church in France.

  6. James Chalmers (loyalist) - Wikipedia

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    James Chalmers was a Loyalist officer and pamphleteer in the American Revolution.. Born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, Chalmers was an ambitious military strategist after the War of Independence, who immigrated to America in 1760 "with several black slaves and 10,000 British pounds in his pocket," [citation needed] settling in Kent County and becoming "one of the Eastern Shore's most prominent ...

  7. George Thomason (book collector) - Wikipedia

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    He is famous for assembling a collection of more than 22,000 books and pamphlets published during the time of the English Civil War and the interregnum. [1] Thomason's collection was formerly known as the "King's Pamphlets" after King George III, but is now called the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts. [1]

  8. Pamphleteer - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Paine's pamphlets were influential in the history of the American Revolutionary War. [2] 17th-century Dutch naval officer Witte de With wrote papers mocking and praising his fellow officers. [citation needed] Poet and polemicist John Milton published pamphlets as well.

  9. Copperhead (politics) - Wikipedia

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    Copperhead pamphlet from 1864 by Charles Chauncey Burr, a magazine editor from New York City [10]. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, about which they faulted abolitionists.