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People: Stefan Uroš III (Stefan Dečanski) of Serbia
Topic: Constantinople, Siege of (Byzantine-Ottoman Turk War of 1422)

Thomas Paine answers, from Paris in summer …

Years: 1792 - 1792
June

Thomas Paine answers, from Paris in summer of 1792, British the sedition and libel charges thus: "If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous ... let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb". (Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed To The Addressers On The Late Proclamation, in Michael Foot, Isaac Kramnick (ed.), The Thomas Paine Reader, p. 374))