Stephen Saunders Webb, Ph.D. is the Maxwell Professor of History and Social Science in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Early American History and Culture; The Charles Warren Center, Harvard; The National Endowment for the Humanities; and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is the author of The Governors-General: The English Army and The Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681; 1676 The End of American Independence; and Lord Churchill's Coup: The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered.

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