History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent, 10. cilt

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Little, Brown,, 1875

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Anxious as to the Bavarian succession 105 Makes approaches
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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 120On Long Island 121
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Divides his army 121 His waste of time 121 His winter in Philadel
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vice of Lee 128 He commands the advanced corps 128 His negligence
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Dismissed by Congress 134 Character 134Death 134 Carvers
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ion of Gibbon 140Howe 141 Clinton 141Germain 141North
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Congress receives the French minister 147Sullivan lands on Rhode
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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 169Forced cir
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the Americans 176 Impracticable 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 183Of Jay 183Vergennes on the American
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Clark at Redstone 194At Louisville 195Schemes of Hamilton at
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Further merits of the backwoodsmen 201 Expedition under Evan Shelby
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dition of the officers 205 Of the rank and file 205Congress fixes the num
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sissippi
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Congress refers the terms of peace to a committee 213Report of
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Matthews predatory expedition 223 Retaliation of the Virginia legisla
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the country of the Onondagas 230Sullivan appointed to command
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American independence fixed 235 America will establish a strong gov
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At East Haven 226 At Fairfield 226At Norwalk 227 Address of
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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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269 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 287Movements of the new commander 287 Repulse
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Arrival of Byron with reenforcements 295 Running fight between
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Lincoln reenforced by the Virginia line 304Arbuthnot enters the harbor
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Enrolment of the inhabitants 310Murder of Samuel Wyły 310
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Its convention declares the state a free republic 364 Committee to draft
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Retreat of the British 374Committee of congress in camp 374 Clinton
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plan 383 Clinton embarks troops 383André 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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Answer of Jones 404Action of congress to obtain men and money
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successor 407John Adams on the powers of congress 408 Conventions
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great officers of state 412Relies to excess on a bank of the United States
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Comparison of France and the United States 418Measure to enable
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distinctions 426 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 444Vergennes 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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Camp of rest at the falls of the Pedee 459 Difficulties of Greenes
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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 484Germain instructs Clinton to further the plan of a cam
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492Greene at the high hills of Santee 493 Rawdon 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 509Asks leave to retire
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Cornwallis determines to fortify York and Gloucester 511 Lafayettes
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CHAPTER XXVI
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old whigs 532Union of Shelburne and Rockingham alone able to estab
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quer Jamaica 538Concentrates 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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554 Franklin proposes the American conditions of peace 554Re
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Sends full powers to Oswald 558 Shelburne and Franklin as nego
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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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fisheries 585Old debts still valid 585Refusal of indemnity to
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The boundary marked on maps 591 Character of the treaty 591
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Sayfa 222 - ... truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them...
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Sayfa 525 - I congratulate you, as the friend of America ; I trust, as not the enemy of England ; I am sure, as the friend of mankind, on the resolution of the house of commons, carried by a majority of nineteen at two o'clock this morning, in a very full house. It was the declaration of two hundred and thirty-four ; I think it was the opinion of the whole.
Sayfa 357 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth...
Sayfa 386 - The Board having maturely considered these facts, do also report to his Excellency General Washington, that Major Andre, adjutant general to the British army, ought to be considered as a spy from the enemy, and that agreeable to the law and usage of nations, it is their opinion he ought to suffer death.
Sayfa 385 - It is no less, sir, in a confidence of the generosity of your mind, than on account of your superior station, that I have chosen to importune you with this letter. I have the honor to be with great respect, sir, Your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, John Andre, Adjutant General.
Sayfa 400 - I see one head gradually changing into thirteen; I see one army branching into thirteen, and, instead of looking up to Congress, as the supreme controlling power of the United States, considering themselves as dependent on their respective states.
Sayfa 227 - British historian, records that " the conduct of the Americans upon this occasion was highly meritorious, for they would have been fully justified in putting the garrison to the sword ; not one man of which was put to death but in fair combat.

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