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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Birth of mr. Washington....His mission to the French on
the Ohio....Appointed lieutenant colonel of a regiment
of regular troops....Surprises monsieur Jumonville....
Capitulation of fort Necessity.... Is appointed aid-du-camp
to general Braddock....Defeat and death of that general....
Is appointed to the command of a regiment....Extreme
distress of the frontiers, and exertions of colonel
Washington to augment the regular force of the
colony....General Forbes undertakes the expedition
against fort du Quesne....Defeat of major Grant....Fort
du Quesne evacuated by the French, and taken posses-
sion of by the English.... Resignation and marriage of
colonel Washington.
CHAPTER II.
Opinions on the supremacy of parliament, and its right
to tax the colonies.... The stamp act....Congress as-
semble at New York....Violence in the great towns....
Change of the administration....Stamp act repealed....
Opposition to the mutiny act....Act imposing duties on
tea, &c. resisted in America....The assembly of Mas-
sachussetts address letters to several members of the
administration in England....Petition to the king....Cir-
cular letters to the colonial assemblies....Letter from
the earl of Hillsborough.... Assembly of Massachussetts
dissolved....Seizure of the sloop Liberty....A convention
assembles at Faneuil Hall....Moderation of its proceed-
ings....Two British regiments arrive at Boston....Reso-
lutions of the house of burgesses of Virginia....The
governor dissolves the assembly....The members form
and sign a non-importation association....Measures ge-
nerally taken against the importation of British manu-
factures....General court again convened in Massachus-
setts.... Its proceedings....Is prorogued....Administration
resolve on à repeal of all the duties except that on tea....
Circular letter of the earl of Hillsborough....New York
recedes in part from the non-importation agreement....
The example generally followed....Riot in Boston.....
Trial and acquittal of captain Preston.
CHAPTER III.
Insurrection in North Carolina.... Dissatisfaction of Mas-
sachussetts....Corresponding committees appointed.....
Governor Hutchinson's correspondence with the admi-
nistration sent over by doctor Franklin.... The assembly
petition for the removal of the governor and lieutenant
governor....Hutchinson is succeeded by general Gage
....Measures to enforce the execution of the act con-
cerning duties....Ferment excited in America.... The tea
is thrown into the sea at Boston....Measures of parlia-
ment....General enthusiasm in America....A general
congress is proposed....General Gage arrives in Boston
....Troops stationed on Boston neck....New counsellors
and judges....Obliged to resign....Boston neck fortified
....Military stores seized by general Gage....Prepara-
tions for defence in Massachussetts....King's speech in
parliament....Proceedings of that body....Battle of Lex-
ington....Vote of Massachussetts for raising men....
Meeting of congress....Proceedings of that body.....
Transactions in Virginia....Provincial congress of South
Carolina....Battle of Breed's hill.
CHAPTER IV.
Colonel Washington appointed commander in chief of the
American forces....Arrives at Cambridge....Strength
and disposition of the two armies....Deficiency of the
Americans in arms and ammunition....Falmouth burnt....
Success of the American cruisers....Distress of the Bri-
tish from the want of fresh provisions....Difficulty of
re-inlisting the army....Plans for attacking Boston....
Possession taken of the heights of Dorchester....Boston
evacuated.
CHAPTER V.
Invasion of Canada meditated....The Americans enter
that province....Siege of St. Johns....Capture of fort
Chamblee....Carleton defeated at Longueisle....St. Johns
capitulates....Montreal surrenders....Arnold's expedition
by the way of the Kennebec....He arrives before Quebec
....And retires to Point Aux Trembles....Montgomery
lays siege to Quebec....Unsuccessful attack on that place.
....Death of Montgomery....Blockade of Quebec conti-
nued....General Thomas takes command of the army....
The blockade of Quebec is raised....General Sullivan
takes the command....Battle of the Three Rivers....
Canada evacuated.
CHAPTER VI.
Transactions in Virginia....Action at the Great Bridge....
Norfolk evacuated....And burnt....Transactions of North
Carolina....Action at Moore's creek bridge....Invasion
of South Carolina....British fleet repulsed at fort Moul-
trie....Transactions in New York....Measures leading to
Independence....Independence declared.
CHAPTER VII.
Lord and sir William Howe arrive before New York....
Circular letter of lord Howe....State of the American
army....The enemy land in force on Long island....
Battle of Brooklyn and evacuation of Long island....
Fruitless negotiations....New York evacuated.
CHAPTER VIII.
Skirmish on the heights of Haerlem....The enemy land
at Frogs' neck....The American army evacuates York
island, except fort Washington....Both armies move
towards the White Plains....Battle of the White Plains....
The British army returns to King's bridge, and gene-
ral Washington with a part of his army crosses the
North river....The lines of fort Washington carried by
the enemy, and the garrison made prisoners....Evacu-
ation of fort Lee....Weakness of the American army....
Ineffectual attempts to raise the militia....General Wash-
ington retreats through Jersey....Capture of general
Lee....General Washington crosses the Delaware....
Danger of Philadelphia.... The British go into winter
quarters....Battle of Trenton....Of Princeton....Firmness
of Congress.