Our Country: A Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Band 2

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Landing of Troops there 663Firmness of the Council and Selectmen 664Public Feeling
672
Americans 676James Otis Disabled 677Troops in Boston 678Interference with Popular
687
Tryon and the Regulators 690A Battle on the Alamance 691Cruelty of the Governor 691
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Crownofficers in America made Independent of the Assemblies 693Obnoxious Letters
699
706The Boston Port Bill 706Opposition of Burke and others 707Charles James Fox
706
Adopted 709Apprehensions of the Ministry 710The Petition for the Removal of Hutchin
714
Liberty Active 716Gage in Boston 716Doings of a TownMeeting 717Action of the Vir
718
People 720Preparations for a General Congress 721Doings in New York 722Minute
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with Religious Services 734Personal Sketches of the Members 734Hospitalities of Phila
738
Destruction of Tea at Annapolis 743Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Formed 744
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Preparations for Civil Government and War 745The Country and Events West of the Alle
750
CHAPTER XIII
757
North and the Cabinet 759Policy toward the Americans 760Franklin admitted to
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Americans not Revolutionists 771Treatment of Battles 771England and Her Colonies
772
774Military Expedition to Concord 775Skirmish at Lexington
778
March for Boston 788Fight at West Cambridge 788Panic at Charlestown 788Account
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Rule Abolished 793Mecklenberg Declaration of Independence 794Call for Troops
795
CHAPTER XVII
810
818Preparations to Besiege Quebec
821
General Hospital 826The Army Before Boston 826Committee of Congress 826Insub
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CHAPTER XIX
834
Provinces in 1775 837Exciting Scenes in Virginia 838Battle at Great Bridge 838Destruc
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in Canada 848Temper of the Canadians 849Commissioners of Congress in Canada 849
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Clinton in North Carolina 853Battle in Charleston Harbor
856
Washington in New York 860Action of the Continental Congress 861Schuyler and
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CHAPTER XXII
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Arrival of British Forces before New York 874Peace Commissioners Foiled 875Lord
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New York 886The United States and France 886Beaumarchais in England 887Com
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Fort Washington 894Prisonships and their Victims
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904The British Army in New Jersey 904Capture of Hessians at Trenton 905Effects of
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The Mischianza p 985The British Evacuate Philadelphia 987Distress of the Tories
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The American Army 987Oath of Allegiance 988Lafayette outgenerals the British Com
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Major Clarke 1001British Forays 1002The British Invade Georgia 1003Relative Position
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CHAPTER XXXIII
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Savannah 1012Battle at Stono Ferry 1012Character of the Invasion 1012British Maraud
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around Ireland 1025Doings on the American Coast 1026Loss of British Vessels 1026
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off the Coast of Scotland 1028His Rewards 1032The King and Parliament 1032Ireland
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DeKalb 1041Gates in Command 1041Exploits of Sumter and Marion and other Parti
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Hamilton and Miss Schuyler 1050British Invasion of New Jersey 1051Murder of
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Progress of his Treason 1053Interview between Arnold and André 1054Capture
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Laurens and a French Loan 1064Articles of Confederation 1065A Bank Established
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Greene Chased by Cornwallis 1068Battle at Guilford Courthouse 1070Fox and Pitt
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Augusta 1078Siege of Fort Ninetysix 1078Greene Raises the Siege and Pursues Rawdon
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Hayne 1080Greene Pursues Stewart 1081Battle at Eutaw Springs 1081Greene Returns
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Various Military Movements 1091Washington adopts his Stepsons Children 1091Affairs
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Peace 1098Washingtons Farewell Addresses 1099The Two Armies 1099Evacuation
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and the Result 1021
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Society of the Cincinnati 1105Weakness of the New Government 1105The Opinions
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CHAPTER I
1119
Visits His Mother 1121His Journey to New York 1121Reception at Philadelphia Trenton
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Official Etiquette 1134Ceremonies at the Opening of Congress 1136Hamiltons Report
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CHAPTER III
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Citizen Genet and the Republicans 1147Proclamation of Neutrality 1147The Whisky
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roe in France 1159Refusal to receive an American Minister 1159A Savage Decree 1159
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Bonaparte in the East 1163New Envoys to France 1163A Conspiracy 1164Bonaparte
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1173Condition of the Government 1175Affairs Abroad 1175Difficulties with the Barbary
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Powers 1175Our Navy 1176War with the Barbary Powers 1176Growth of the Republic
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cably Settled
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Embargo Act 1189Tribute to Great Britain Demanded 1189Opposition to the Embargo
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Napoleon 1192President and Little Belt 1192The Two Navies 1193Trouble with
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Seite 791 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged, their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable; and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry Peace, peace!
Seite 792 - Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Seite 775 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea ; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Seite 1121 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained, and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Seite 629 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 790 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?
Seite 760 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 791 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Seite 871 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Seite 1121 - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...

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