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

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

       Congress sends a petition to the king

       The king issues a proclamation, and tries to hire troops from Russia

       Catherine refuses

       The king hires German troops

       Indignation in Germany

       Burning of Portland, Oct 16, 1775

       Effects upon Congress

       The Americans invade Canada, Sept., 1775

       Arnold’s march through the wilderness of Maine

       Assault upon Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775

       Total failure of the attempt upon Canada

       The siege of Boston

       Washington seizes Dorchester Heights March 4, 1776

       The British troops evacuate Boston March 17, 1776

       A provisional flag

       Effect of the hiring of “myrmidons”

       “Common Sense”

       Fulminations and counter-fulminations

       The Scots in North Carolina

       Clinton sails for the Carolinas