Category: History - American
ILLUSTRATIONS: George III., 20; Lord North, with Autograph, 21; Rockingham, 31; Fac-simile of _Glorious News_, May 16, 1766, 33; John Adams, 36; Fac-simile of Adams's Writing, 37; Samuel Adams, with Autograph, 40; Samuel Adams, 41; Revere's Plan of State Street at the time of...
THE treaty of peace signed at Paris, February 10, 1763, marks perhaps the most important epoch in the political and social history of North America.[1422] It settled forever a q...
19. CHAPTER VI.IN the autumn of 1778 the British commander-in-chief, Sir Henry Clinton, determined to attempt for the second time the subjugation of the Southern colonies, and Savannah was sel...
11. CHAPTER I.THE American Revolution was no unrelated event, but formed a part of the history of the British race on both continents, and was not without influence on the history of mankind....
21. CHAPTER VIII.THE peace which followed the quelling of the Pontiac war gave opportunities for settlements to be pushed westward. The population on the border, rendered lawless by environment,...
32. i. 208), and in the same library is a drawn map, also by Collet, ofthe back country, made in 1768, in twelve sheets. E. W. Caruthers' _Interesting Revolutionary incidents chiefly in the old North State_, second series (Philadelphia, 1856), has...
17. CHAPTER IV.WHEN, in March, 1776, the British evacuated Boston, Washington felt assured that New York, already threatened, would be their objective point, not only on account of its commerc...
12. CHAPTER II."YOU must be firm, resolute, and cautious; but discover no marks of timidity", wrote one from London to James Bowdoin, February 20, 1774.[324] Firm, resolute, cautious, but bold...
18. CHAPTER V."THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands it now dese...
24. ii. Mahon says that the whole spirit evaporates from the reports ofChatham's speeches in Almon. In March, 1775, Camden made a speech which Hutchinson (P. O. Hutchinson's _Governor Hutchinson_, 408, 410) describes and imagines Camden to have mad...
20. CHAPTER VII.THE battles of the Revolution were fought on the sea as often as on the land, and to as much purpose. The losses inflicted on their enemies by the United States in their naval w...
29. viii. 640), and other accounts and comment of that day, in Sparks's_Washington_, vol. v.; _Heath Papers_ (_Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._), p. 65. Cf. further, Lossing's _Schuyler_ (ii. ch. 10, etc.); _General Hull's Revolutionary Services_ (ch. 7); D...
25. Part ii., 1776, p. 294.) This is in vol. i. of Chas. I. Bushnell's_Crumbs for Antiquarians_ (New York, 1859). This series is recorded in Sabin, iii. no. 9,538; _Boon Catal._, p. 591. The journal is also in the _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, xii., a...
13. CHAPTER III.THE assertion needs no qualification that the thirteen colonies would not in the beginning have furnished delegates to a congress with the avowed purpose of seeking a separation...
36. chapter i., notes.[1490] Declaration of Rights, Oct. 14, 1774 (_Jour. of Old Cong._, i. 22). In similar terms it was complained of in the Articles of Association, Oct. 20, 1774 (_Ibid._ 23), and...
30. iv. 155), have held that "the justice of the sentence cannot bereasonably impugned;" and this seems to be the drift of the best current English opinion to-day (cf. Dawson's _Papers_, 211, etc.; Sargent, p. 413, who in chapter 22 gives the c...
31. ii. 50) for his strictures on the giving up the position near FortMoultrie. It is probable that, had the British fleet been kept out of the Cooper River, the surrender would have been long deferred, perhaps even until the hot season and the ar...
22. Part iii., 1776, pp. 50, 252-274, and 275), including a letter, Sept.4th, which says: "The colonel's (Williamson's) next object will be the middle towns, where he expects to be joined by General Rutherford with 200 [2,000?] North Carolinians. Col...
27. i. 121-126) are at issue upon the point whether the lifting of thefog, which revealed the purpose of the English ships to get between Brooklyn and New York, took place before the retreat was ordered, or after it was nearly over. Bancroft's wit...
34. vii. 962) states on the best authorities of white men who were withthe Indians, and of several different Indians, who all agree, that the true number of Indians who attacked Colonel Bouquet at Bushy Run was only ninety-five. This statement seem...
35. ii. 483, says its papers were entrusted to him fifty years ago byCharles Fenton Mercer, of Virginia) had led to a plan to buy out the French settlers in Illinois (Sparks's _Franklin_, vii. 356; Bigelow's _Franklin_, i. 537, 547; ii. 112); and...
33. part ii. p. 1388, "Charter of Carolina, 1663, § 15.")[1415] Samuel Kirkland was born at Norwich, Conn., Dec. 1, 1744; graduated at Princeton, 1765; became a missionary among the Indians. The hostility of Guy Johnson bore testimony...
28. part 2. The military movements near New York are chronicled in papersRespecting New York city during this period, there are data in _New York City during the American Revolution_, being a _Collection of original papers, now first published from M...
14. i. 95), but Henry assisted in that vote of the Virginia Convention,on the 15th, which instructed its representatives in Congress to move a vote of independence.[699] R. H. Lee wrote to Charles Lee that "the proprietary colonies do certainly obs...
16. iv. 16,086, who says 200 copies were printed, and who gives variousother early editions). The Rev. William Jackson edited at London, in 1783, _The constitutions of the independent states of America; the declaration of independence; and the arti...
3. CHAPTER II.ILLUSTRATIONS: Autograph of Admiral Graves, 114; Notice of Committee of Correspondence, signed by William Cooper, 115; Autograph of Jedediah Preble, 116; of Joseph Hawley, 118;...
6. CHAPTER V.ILLUSTRATIONS: Charles Lee, 369; his Autograph, 370; Fac-simile of an Appeal of the Council of Safety, Dec. 8, 1776, 371; Broadside of the Council of Safety, 372; Lord Howe, 380...
2. CHAPTER I.ILLUSTRATIONS: George III., 20; Lord North, with Autograph, 21; Rockingham, 31; Fac-simile of _Glorious News_, May 16, 1766, 33; John Adams, 36; Fac-simile of Adams's Writing, 3...
5. CHAPTER IV.ILLUSTRATIONS: Mortier House, on Richmond Hill, Washington's Headquarters, 276; Lord Howe, 277; General Sir William Howe, 278; Lord Stirling, 280; Roger Morris House, Washington...
7. CHAPTER VI.ILLUSTRATIONS: View of Charlestown, S. C., 471; Fac-simile of General Moultrie's Order, 471; Fac-simile of Commodore Whipple's Letter, 472; General Benjamin Lincoln, Portrait an...
15. cxlii. 23, together with the letter of Hancock transmitting it tothat State. There is another copy, similarly attested, in the Boston Public Library; and a reduced fac-simile of such a copy, with its attestations, is given in the _Orderly-boo...
8. CHAPTER VII.ILLUSTRATIONS: Fac-simile of Commodore Tucker's Orders to command the "Boston", 566; Esek Hopkins, 569; Autograph of Joshua Barney, 575; of Captain John Barry, 581; Fac-simile o...
10. CHAPTER IX.ILLUSTRATIONS: Henry Bouquet, 692; Plan of Bushy Run Battle, 693; Bouquet's Council with the Indians, 695; Bouquet's Campaign Map, 696; Map of the Illinois Country, 700; Ruins o...
26. i. 1211) to send down boats from up the Hudson, which he did (Heath,_Memoirs_, 57). Washington's reasons for a retreat are told in a letter of Joseph Reed, Aug. 30th, to Wm. Livingston, given in Sedgwick's _Livingston_, 201. (Cf. Sparks, _Washin...
4. CHAPTER III.ILLUSTRATIONS: Autographs of the Mecklenburg Committee, 256; Thomas Jefferson, 258; State House, Philadelphia, 259; Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, 260; Autog...
1. Part I9. CHAPTER VIII.ILLUSTRATIONS: Guy Johnson's Map of the Country of the Six Nations, 609; Joseph Thayendaneken (Brant), 623; Brant, by Romney, 625; his Autograph, 625; St. Leger's Order of March...