THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Complete Edition In 2 Volumes). Fiske John

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СКАЧАТЬ Debates in Parliament

       Richard, Lord Howe

       Franklin returns to America

       The middle colonies

       Lord North’s mistaken hopes of securing New York

       Affairs in Massachusetts

       Warren’s oration at the Old South

       Attempt to corrupt Samuel Adams.

       Orders to arrest Adams and Hancock

       Paul Revere’s ride.

       Pitcairn fires upon the yeomanry, April 19, 1775

       Retreating troops rescued by Lord Percy

       The troops repulsed at Concord.

       Retreat continued from Lexington to Charlestown

       Rising of the country; the British besieged in Boston.

       Effects of the news

       Mecklenburg County Resolves, May 31, 1775

       Legend of the Mecklenburg “Declaration of Independence”

       Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen

       Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, May 10, 1775

       Second meeting of the Continental Congress, May 10, 1775

       Appointment of Washington to command the Continental army

       Siege of Boston

       Gage’s proclamation

       Americans occupy Bunker Hill

       Arrival of Putnam, Stark, and Warren, June 17, 1775

       Gage decides to try an assault

       First assault repulsed

       Second assault repulsed

       Prescott’s powder gives out

       Third assault succeeds; the British take the hill

       British and American losses

       Excessive slaughter; significance of the battle

       Its moral effect

       CHAPTER IV INDEPENDENCE

       Washington arrives in Cambridge

       Daniel Morgan

       Benedict Arnold

       John Sullivan

       Nathanael Greene

       Henry Knox

       Older officers

       Israel Putnam

       Horatio Gates and Charles Lee

       Lee’s personal peculiarities

       Benjamin Church

       Difficult work for Washington

       Absence of governmental organization

       New government of Massachusetts, July, 1775

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