INCIDENTS

IN

AMERICAN HISTORY;

BEING A SELECTION OF THE

MOST IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING EVENTS

WHICH HAVE TRANSPIRED

SINCE THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, TO THE
PRESENT TIME.

COMPILED FROM THE MOST APPROVED AUTHORITIES,

By J. W. BARBER.

NEW EDITION, ENLARGED.

BOSTON:

JOHN PHILBRICK,

62 HANOVER STREET.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by
GEORGE F. COOLEDGE & BROTHER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.