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1689 War on the Canada border. Port Royal in Nova Scotia taken

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1691 Colonel Sloughter appointed governor of New York...

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1694 Culture of rice introduced into South Carolina..

War on the Canada border...

Leisler deposed and executed...

1697 Peace of Ryswick......

1701 Penn grants a new charter to Pennsylvania...

Lord Cornbury appointed governor of New York..

1702 War with France and Spain...

Expedition against St. Augustine.

1706 Unsuccessful attack of the Spaniards on Charleston..

1711 Unsuccessful invasion of Canada......

1712 War in North Carolina with the Tuscarora and Coree Indians 144 1715 War of the Yemassees....

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Fort Oswego taken by Montcalm......

1757 Fort William Henry taken by Montcalm..

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1758 Forts Du Quesne and Frontignac taken by the English. 1759 Quebec taken. General Wolf killed.......

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1774 Boston Port bill passed.....

1765 Stamp act passed.....

First Continental Congress meets at New York.

1766 Stamp act repealed..

1768 Boston garrisoned by British troops.

1770 Boston Massacre...

1772 Affair of the schooner Gaspee..

1773 Tea destroyed in Boston..

Continental Congress assembles at Philadelphia.

1775 April 19 Battle of Lexington and Concord...........
May Ticonderoga and Crown Point taken..
June 17 Washington appointed commander in chief..

Battle of Breed's Hill..

Nov. 19 Montreal taken.......

Dec. 31 Attack on Quebec defeated. Montgomery killed... 204

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June 28 Attack on Charleston defeated..
July 4 Declaration of Independence.

Aug. 26 Americans defeated on Long Island.
Sept. 15 New York occupied by the British..

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1776 Oct. 28 Battle of White Plains...

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Nov. 15 Articles of Confederation of the United States ratified 228
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June 18 The British evacuate Philadelphia..

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Treaty between France and the United States...
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Unsuccessful attempt of the British on Port Royal. 259

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March 3 Battle of Briar Creek..

General Prevost advances towards Charleston.
Descent of the British on Virginia.....

June 20 Defeat of General Lincoln at Stono Ferry.

July Descent of the British on Connecticut..

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6 Descent of the British on New London..

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1782 Feb. 27 General Conway makes a motion in the British
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Lord North retires from the ministry.......... 299
Treaty of Peace between the United States and
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1809 March 4 Commencement of Madison's Administration.

April 23 Mr. Erskine engages on behalf of the British
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Battle of Constitution, Cyane and Levant.

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APPENDIX.

Page 4 Death of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson...... 399 Tariff Law........

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Sept. 18 Removal of Deposits from United States Bank..... 403
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LIST OF AUTHORITIES.

Holmes's Annals of America-Bancroft's History of the United States-Ramsay's History of the United States-Hale's History of the United States-Robertson's History of America-Irving's Life of Columbus-Ramsay's History of the American Revolu tion-Perkins's History of the Late War with Great Britain-British Annual RegisterProud's History of Pennsylvania-Stith's History of Virginia-Graham's History of the United States-Marshall's History of the American Colonies-Marshall's Life of Washington-Everett's Orations at Concord, Plymouth, and Cambridge-Webster's Orations at Plymouth and at Bunker Hill-L'Art de Verifier les Dates-Perkins's Historical Sketches of the United States-Irving's Conquest of Florida-Pitkin's Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America-North American ReviewAmerican Quarterly Review-Niles's Register-Sanderson's Lives of the Signers of the Declaratiou of Independence-Longacre and Herring's National Gallery-Botta's History of the War of Independence-Nicholas's Chronology of History-Watson's Annals of Philadelphia-Gordon's History of the Revolution-Bowen's Naval Monument-First Voyage of Columbus-Warren's History of the Revolution-Salmon's Modern History-Jefferson's Correspondence-Sparks's Writings of WashingtonWait's State Papers-Gales's Debates in Congress-Brackenridge's History of the Late War-Garden's Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War-Hazard's Historical Col lections-Lyman's Diplomacy of the United States-Raynal's Revolution of AmericaReidesel's Letters and Memoirs relating to the War of American IndependenceSmith's History of Virginia-Gordon's History of America-Gordon's History of ?ennsylvania-Everett's America-Thacher's Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War-Warden's Account of the United States-Winterbotham's View of the United States-Snowden's History of North and South America-Smith's History of New York-Minot's History of Massachusetts-Bradford's History of Massachusetts.

NOTE.-To avoid encumbering the pages with numerous references, very few authorities are cited in the body of the work; and a History of the American Revolution contained in the Library of Useful Knowledge, and a History of the Western World, composing a part of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, have been occasionally quoted with slight alterations, and without making any other than the present general acknowledgment.

THE END.

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