HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

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Charles Augustus of SaxeWeimar 95Goethe and the class
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France 105Declines the overture of Franklin 106Protects Arthur
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His opinion of Englands position after the defeat of Burgoyne 113
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Bunker Hill 120In retreating to Halifax 120 On Long Island 121
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permit the army of Burgoyne to embark 126 Crossing the Delaware
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Congress thank Washington 133 Black Americans in
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ion of Gibbon 140Howe 141 Clinton 141Germain 141 North
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The French squadron pursues the British 147A hurricane
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Their menaces 151 Their conduct condemned in the house of commons
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CHAPTER VI
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Admiral Keppel captures a French frigate 162 DOrvilliers sent out
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feited by the British 168Loan Offices 169Lottery 169 Forced cir
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the Americans 176Impracticable plan for emancipating Canada 176
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Blanca 181He observes the attachment of the United States to England
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Gouverneur Morris 183 Of Jay 183Vergennes on the American gov
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Vincennes 195 Kaskaskia 196Its capture by Clark
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Further merits of the backwoodsmen 201 Expedition under Evan Shelby
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sissippi
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Counter argument of Vergennes 211French minister endeavors to per
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Stormy debate on the fisheries 218 The French minister endeavors to
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Matthews predatory expedition 223Retaliation of the Virginia legisla
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the country of the Onondagas 230Sullivan appointed to command
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ernment 236Absorb the West Indies 236Condition of Spanish South
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At East Haven 226At Fairfield 226At Norwalk 227 Address
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PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN EUROPE 1779
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Combined fleet disperses 250Dejection in France 250Maria Theresa
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THE ARMED NEUTRALITY 17781780
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merce from the American commissioners 261 Neglect and silence of
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Conflicting aggressions of France and England in the Netherlands
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Autograph letter of George III to Catharine 273 Harris offers
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284Expedition sent out by Prevost to plunder 284 Sunbury summoned
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His previous life 287 Movements of the new commander 287 Repulse
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French and British fleets 295 French recover the superiority 295 DEs
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Lincoln reenforced by the Virginia line 304Arbuthnot enters the harbor
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Retreat of the British 374Committee of congress in camp 374 Clinton
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Clinton embarks troops 383 André on board the Vulture
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History of West Point 385 Interview of Washington with Rochambeau
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emissions of paper money 398 Henry Laurens sent to negotiate a loan
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Proposal for a bank at Philadelphia with power to issue notes 405
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successor 407John Adams on the powers of congress 408 Conventions
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great officers of state 412 Relies to excess on a bank of the United States
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congress to regulate commerce 419 Consent of Virginia 419 Her efforts
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His answer to the complaints of the Dutch 426 Mariotts
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Yorke informs Stormont of the weakness of the Dutch 436 His recom
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of Stormont for the punishment of the Amsterdam offenders 438
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Forth 443Neckers letter to Lord North 444 Vergennes on Necker
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Americas need of money 446 Advice of Washington 446 Complaints
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Virginia 457 Complaint of Cornwallis 457 Greenes answer 457
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CHAPTER XXIII
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Junction of the American army at Guilford courthouse 472 Greenes
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Pickens routs a body of loyalists under Pyle 474 Cornwallis strives
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to Germain 484 Germain instructs Clinton to further the plan of a cam
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The Dutch desire to continue at peace with England 437 Demand
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Greene at the high hills of Santee 493Rawdon sails for England
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ette detached to Virginia 497 Arrival of Phillips with reenforcements
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Instructions to the American commissioners 502Madison on reforming
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remonstrates against a defensive campaign 509 Asks leave to retire
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Cornwallis determines to fortify York and Gloucester 511 Lafayettes
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siege 518 Storming party under Hamilton 519Heroism of Olney
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CHAPTER XXVI
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ENGLAND REFUSES TO CONTINUE THE AMERICAN WAR 1782
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quer Jamaica 538 Concentrates its energies on the recovery of Gibral
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The cabinet offers independence directly to America as the condition
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Franklin proposes the American conditions of peace 554
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Jay in Paris 558He demands a preliminary acknowledg
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covers Georgia 563 His conduct at Sharon 563Evacuation of Savan
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Morriss budget for 1783 571Proposal of Madison to empower congress
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tons opinion 578 Agitation of the king 578Jay and De Aranda
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Página 125 - The idea of dependence is inadmissible. Congress will be ready to enter upon a treaty of peace and commerce, when the king of Great Britain shall demonstrate a sincere disposition for that purpose by an explicit acknowledgment of the independence of these states, or withdrawing his fleets and armies." The American officers were of the same mind, except
Página 365 - possessing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness." The lawyers of Virginia had not considered this declaration as of itself working the emancipation of negro slaves; to accomplish that end, the men of Massachusetts, in deciding how many of their old laws should remain in full force, excepted those parts which CHAP, were " repugnant to the rights and liberties contained
Página 209 - that as neither France nor these United States may of right, so they will not conclude either truce or peace with the common enemy, without the formal consent of their ally first obtained." The conditions on which it was most difficult for 1 Writings of Washington, ed.
Página 585 - 2 tion, that it was definitively established in the treaty 29." itself. On the north-west it was agreed that the line should be drawn through the centre of the water communications of the great lakes to the Lake of the Woods. The British commissioners denied to the Americans the right of drying fish on Newfoundland.
Página 122 - When the king of Great Britain shall be seriously disposed to end the unprovoked war waged against these United States, they will readily attend to such terms of peace as may consist with the honor of independent nations and the sacred regard they mean to pay to treaties." On the day of this second rejection of Lord North's offers,
Página 570 - Morris, who saw the transcendent importance of the act of the New York legislature, welcomed the young statesman to his new career in these words : " A firm, wise, manly system of federal government is what I once wished, what I now hope, what I dare not expect, but what I will not despair of.
Página 142 - The king, in January, 1778, confessed to Lord North : " The time may come when it will be wise to abandon all North America but Canada, Nova Scotia, and the Floridas ; but then the generality of the nation must see it first in that light/
Página 395 - I have ordered in the most positive manner that every militia-man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy shall be immediately hanged. ' ' By militiamen were meant alike officers and privates, of whatever
Página 115 - The king desires that your generous efforts may be crowned with complete success. He will not hesitate to recognise your independence, when France, which is more directly interested in the event of this contest, shall have given the example." 3 1 Schulenburg to Wm. Lee, 3 2 Schulenburg to Arthur Lee
Página 523 - and to de Grasse, with special thanks to the officers and troops. A marble column was to be erected at Yorktown, with emblems of the alliance between the United States and his most Christian Majesty.

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