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CHAPTER LI.
A. D.
1774. Ill news from America
The Tea-ships
Tumult at Boston
The Boston Port Bill
Precedents alleged.
The measure passes ..............
The Massachusetts Government Bill
The “province of Quebec
Recall of Governor Hutchinson
The “ Yankees”.......
Lord Sandwich and Colonel Grant ....
Death of Louis the Fifteenth......
Proceedings in Virginia
Solemn League and Covenant
Effects of the Boston Port Bill....
Camp on Boston Common
Intrenchments on Boston Neck.........
General Congress at Philadelphia...
Its first meetings
Two parties in presence.....
Letters to Lord Dartmouth
Declaration of Rights.......
The Carolina delegates
Address to the people of Canada
The “ Committees of Safety”
The “ Minute-men”
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1774. Dissolution of Parliament in England ...
New Elections ......
Wilkes installed as Lord Mayor
Serjeant Glynn
1775. Reappearance of Chatham in Parliament.......
He moves an Address to the King ......
The Duke of Cumberland and Dr. Price .....
Interviews between Chatham and Franklin.....
Solemn assurances from the latter........
Chatham frames a Conciliatory Bill....
His opening speech
Reply of Lord Sandwich
The Bill is rejected .....
Ill consequences of that event
Ministerial differences
Interview between Franklin and Lord Howe ....
Scheme of conciliation from Lord North..........
Ill received by the Bedford party
Resolutions moved by Burke......
His admirable speech......
Periods of 1704 and 1774 ......
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CHAPTER LII.
The winter in Massachusetts
The Stockbridge Indians
Expedition of British troops to Concord
First blood shed at Lexington ...
Retreat of the British.........
“ Yankee-Doodle” and “ Chevy Chace”.
Colonel Israel Putnam
American blockade of Boston
Benedict Arnold ......
Ticonderoga surprised
Meeting of the second Congress at Philadelphia .....
Arrival of Franklin
Continental paper-money
Measures to raise an army.........
Washington chosen Commander-in-chief..
His early life ....
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1775. His character
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He sets out for Massachusetts
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The British troops at Boston......
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Generals Gage and Burgoyne
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Movements of the Americans
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Battle of Bunker's Hill
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Its results...........
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Letters of General Gage
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Speech of Patrick Henry..........
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Proceedings of Congress....
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“ The Olive-branch",
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Terms desired
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Accession of Georgia .
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Hunting shirts
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Washington's camp described
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Want of powder .....
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General Gage returns to England...........
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Public feeling in England ......
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The City magistrates ....
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Mission of Richard Penn........
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Its ill reception .....
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The King's Speech.........
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The Duke of Grafton retires from office ............... 107
Opposition tactics
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New Acts of Parliament......
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Illness of Lord Chatham
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His son Alings up his commission
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Burning of the town of Falmouth...........
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Proceedings of Lord Dunmore in Virginia .... 113
His unjustifiable severities
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The Americans invade Canada
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Expedition of Arnold ....
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Assault upon Quebec ....
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Montgomery falls
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1776. Votes of Congress
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Blockade of Boston continued
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Washington's complaints
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Condition of the British troops.........
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Their preparations to re-embark.....
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Their departure
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1776. Sufferings of the loyalists ....
Medal struck by the insurgents ....
Hiring of troops in Germany.....
Bitter jest by the King of Prussia...........
Warfare in South Carolina ...
Canada recovered by the British
Employment of the Indians as auxiliaries
General Howe arrives off Sandy Hook ...
And is joined by Lord Howe..........
Altered feelings of the Americans..........
Pamphlets by Thomas Paine...
Political sermons.........
Declaration of Rights in Virginia
Mission of Silas Deane to France
Divisions in the Congress
Independence first proposed by Mr. Lee ....
A Committee appointed ....
A Draft Declaration
Adopted with amendments...
And formally promulgated......
“ The United States”
General reflections
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CHAPTER LIV.
Washington at New York......
Letters of Lord Howe
The British land in Long Island
Battle of Brooklyn.............
Danger and distress of the Americans ...
They re-embark ...
British overtures for peace ...
Committee appointed by the Congress
Interview with Lord Howe.....
Project to burn New York
Lines of Haerlem
New York entered by the British...........
Incendiary attempts
Provincial jealousies ......
Disorganisation of the American army .....
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1776. The barber-Captain...........
Dilatory measures of Congress
Mission of Franklin to France.............
Articles of Confederation.....
Gouverneur Morris
Samuel Adams.........
The loyalist minority in Congress
Overtures to Prince Charles Stuart ....
Pennsylvania and the single Chamber
Washington on the White Plains
Action near Chatterton's Hill ......
The British invade New Jersey .......
Retreat of the Americans.........
The “Sons of Liberty"
General Lee taken prisoner
Danger of Philadelphia
Prospects of Washington
His night-march on Trenton.
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And surprise of the Hessian troops
1777. His post beyond the Assanpink .......
Another night march
Action at Princeton
New Jersey recovered by the Americans
Close of the campaign...........
Moral effects of Washington's successes
Change of feeling in Congress
Singular instructions.......
The British in Rhode Island ......
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CHAPTER LV.
The Session of Parliament.........
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Rising importance of Fox .....
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Debts upon the Civil List .........
Address to the King from the Speaker...
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Public money ill applied ....
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Partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus.............. 213
Fires in the Dockyard at Portsmouth
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Incendiary attempt at Plymouth
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And at Bristol