# Decisive Battles of America

Author: Hitchcock, Ripley, 1857-1918 [Editor]

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57899

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Decisive+Battles+of+America+Hitchcock&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

America was discovered in a search for trade routes, but our country has been in larger part maintained and transmitted to us directly or indirectly as the result of war. Almost from the outset there were conflicting claims on the part of Spain, France, and England, and also Holland. The struggles against hostile native tribes along the Atlantic seaboard were followed by war against the aggressions of the French, who would have kept the English-speaking colonies east of the Alleghanies. That long period of strife was followed by two conflicts with England, the first gaining America for Americans as an independent nation, the second confirming it as an independent nationality. While the gr...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decisive-battles-of-america-57899/chapters/17/index.md)