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HISTORY OF EUROPE,

CHA P. I.

Retrospective view of American affairs in the year 1776. Preparation in
Canada for the armament on Lake Champlain. State of the American
force. Engagement near the ifle Valicour. Arnold retires; pursuit;
overtaken; burns his veffels, Crown Point deftroyed and abandoned.
General Garleton lands there with the army. Motives for not attacking
Ticonderoga. General Carleton returns with the
army to Canada.
Situation of affairs to the fouthward. General Lee taken. Perfeverance
of the Congrefs. Measures for renewing their armies. Lands allotted
for ferving during the war. Money borrowed. Addrefs to the people.
Petitions from the inhabitants of New-York, and from thofe of Queen's
county in Long Island, to the Commiffioners. Critical fate of Phila-
delphia. Congress retire to Baltimore. Divifions in Pennsylvania.
Defertions. Surprize at Trenton. Lord Cornwallis returns to the
Jerfeys. Prevented from attacking the enemy at Trenton by impediments
of fituation. General Washington quits his camp, and attacks Colonel
Mawhood, near Princetown. Lord Cornwallis returns from the Delaware
to Brunswick. Americans over-run the ferfeys. British and Auxiliary
forces keep poffeffion of Brunswick and Amboy, during the remainder of
"the winter. Indian war. Articles of confederation and perpetual union
between the thirteen revolted Colonies.
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CHA P. II.

State of affairs previous to the meeting of parliament. New peers. Change
in the department for the education of the Royal Brothers. Extraordinary
augmentation of the peerage in Ireland. Diftreffes of the Weft-India
ilands. Depredations of the American cruizers. Conduct obferved in
the French and Spanish ports. Armaments. Several men of war com-

miffioned.

wiffened. Pres. Dilute between the city of London and the Admiraliv.
Arount of Foln the Painter; be barns the kemp-bout at Pertmouth;
fets fire to jene bruis at B. 35. Spach from the throne. ¿direje.
Amendments moved. Great débates.

CHA P. III.

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CHA P. IV.

CHAP. V.

Accounts laid before the committee of Supply. Motions by the winter.
Contracts animadverted cn. Payment of an unexpected demand made
by the Landgrave of Heffe for levy-money. Debates. Meffage from tre
brone. The meage referred to the committee of fupply. Mction by Lord
John Cavendijh, that the order of reference be difcharged. Great
debates. The motion rej &ed upon a divifion. Refolutions paffed in the

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Debates. Motion carried in the committee of fupply upon a divifion.
Debate renewed on receiving the report. Quiftion carried upon a divi-
fion. Motion for an address to the throne relative to the Royal Bro-
thers. Previous question carried on a divifion. Debate on the speaker's
Speech. Mr. Fox's motion. Motion of adjournment. The latter with-
drawn, and the former carried. Vete of thanks to the Speaker for
bis fpeech. Revolution at Madrass. Tranjactions previous or relative to
the depofing and imprisonment of Lord Pigot. Tranjactions in Leadenhall.

Atreet. Rejolutions on India affairs, moved in the House of Commons by Go-

vernor Johnflone. Debates. The refolutions i ejected upon a divifin. Earl of

Chatham's motion for an addrejs relative to a reconciliation with America.

Motion rejected. Speech from the throne.
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CHA P. VII.

State of affairs at New-York previous to be opening of the campaign. Loyal

provincials embodied, and placed under the command of Governor Tryon.

Expedition to Peck's Kill. To Danbary, under General Tryen. Maga-

zines deftroyed. General Weofler killed. Vefels and provifions deftroyed

at Sagg Harbour, by a detachment from Connecticut under Colonel Meigs.

Advantages derived by General Washington from the detention of the

army at New-York through the unt of tenis. Different fchemes fug-

gested for conducting the operations of the campaign, cli tending to ane object.

General Sir William Howe takes the field; fails in his attempts to bring

Washington to an action; relires to imboy. Turns Juddenly and advances

upon the enemy. Skirmishes. American: under Lord Sterling defeated.

Washington regains his strong camp. Royal army pass over to Staten -

Iland. aleem excited by the preparations for the grand expedition.

General Prefect carried off from Rhode Island. Rate of interest upon the

public loan, advanced by the Congrefs. Monuments decreed for the Gene-

rals Warren and Mercer. Fleet and army depart from Sandy Hook.

Force embarked on the expedition. Congress and Washington alarmed by

the loss of Ticonderoga. Fleet arrives at the River Elk, after a tedious

voyage, and difficult pafage up Chejapeak Bay. Army lands at Elk

Ferry. Declaration ifjued by the General. Washington returns to the

defence of Philadelphia. Advances to the Brandy wine, and to Red-Clay

Creek. Various movements on both fides. Action at the Brandywine.

General Knyhausen makes an attack at Chad's Ford. Lord Cornwallis

marches round to the forks of the Brandywine, where he paffes, in order

to attack the enemy's right. Defeats General Sullivan. Parjues his ad-

vantages until flopped by night. General Knyphoufen paffes at Chua's

Ford. Enemy every where defeated. Lofs on both fides. Reflections on

the action. Victory not decifive. Fareign officers in the American jervice.

Motions of the armies. Engagement prevented by a great fall of raa.

Major-General Grey Jurprizes and defects a party of Americans un 'r

General Wayne. Royal army paffes the Schuylkill, and aarances to Ger-

n-Town. Lord Cornwallis takes pfifion of Philide plia. Some of

the principal inhabitants font prisoners to Virginia, upon the approach

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of the army.
Attack on the new batteries at Philadelphia. Dela
ware frigate taken. Works conftructed by the Americans to render the
paffage of the Delaware impracticable. Successful expedition to Billing's
Fort, and a paffage made through the lower barrier. Royal army fur-
prized and attacked by the Americans at German-Town. Americans_re-
pulfed with lofs and purfued. Brigadier-General Agnew, and Colonel Bird
killed. Army removes to Philadelphia. Unsuccessful attack upon the ene-
my's works on the Delaware. Hefians repuljed with great loss at Red
Bank. Colonel Donop killed. Augufta man of war and Merlin floop de-
ftroyed. New and effectual measures taken for forcing the enemy's works.
Mud Ifand, and Red Bank, abandoned, and taken with their artillery.
and fores. Americans burn their gallies and other shipping. Paffage of
the Delaware opened to Philadelphia. General Sir William Howe, finding
all his efforts to bring Washington to a general action fruitless, returns
with the army to Philadelphia. Americans but their camp at Valley Forge

for the winter.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

General terror excited by the lofs of Ticonderoga, and the expected pro-
grefs of the favages. New England governments notwithstanding fhew no
appearance of fubmiffion. Arnold fent with a reinforcement to the
northern army. Ill effects produced by the cruelties of the Indians. Dif-
ficulties experienced by the royal army in the neighbourhood of Fort Ed-
ward, and in the conveyance of provifions and ftores from Lake George.
Movement made down the North River, and a bridge of rafts thrown

over

near Saratoga, in order to facilitate the operations of Colonel St.
Leger. Expedition to furprize the magazines at Bennington, under the

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conduct of Colonel Baum. Colonel Breyman ordered forward to fupport
the expedition. Baum defeated and taken prisoner; Breyman alfo defeat-
ed. Ill confequences. Fort Stanwix obftinately defended against Colonel
St. Leger. General Harkimer attempts to relieve the fort with a body
of militia, who are moftly cut to pieces. Cruelty, and ill conduct of the
favages; grow fullen and intractable; oblige Colonel St. Leger to raise
the fiege with precipitation and lofs. Villainy of their behaviour on the
retreat. Siege raised before the arrival of Arnold and his detachment
to the relief of the fort. General Gates takes the command of the Ame-
rican army. General Burgoyne with the royal army pass the North River
at Saratoga, and advance to attack the enemy near Still Water. Differ-
ence of opinion upon that measure, as well as the motives which led to its
being adopted. Severe and heavy action on the nineteenth of Sep-
tember. Both armies fortify their camps. Unfortunate action on the
feventh of October. Camp formed. Death of General Frazer, Co-
lonel Breyman, and Sir James Clarke. Diftreffed fituation of the
royal army. Masterly movement made, and an entire new pofition
taken in the night. New engagement eagerly fought, but refused on
the next day by the enemy. Retreat to Saratoga. Previous defertion
of the Indians and others. Royal army reduced to the utmost streights.
Nearly furrounded on all fides. Cut off from all means of fubfiftence,
and poffibility of retreat. Councils of war.
Convention concluded
with General Gates. Terms of the convention.
State of the army.
Successful expedition by Sir Henry Clinton and General Vaughan up the
North River. Several forts taken; Efopus and other places deftroyed.
Colonel Campbell, with the Majors Sill and Grant, and Count Grabouskie,
a Polish nobleman, killed in this expedition. Some obfervations on the
campaign.
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