1892 History Of AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR George Washington Battles MAPS
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The American Revolution
By
John Fiske
In Two Volumes , Volume I
Published By Houghton , Mifflin And Company
Riverside Press , Cambridge
Boston and New York
1892
Hardcover.
Cloth Binding.
4.5" x 7" , xxi + 344 Pages.
127 Years Old
History of the American Revolution and Revolutionary War
By
John Fiske (1842-1901)
This is Volume I ( of 2 ) only.
Includes
Portrait of George Washington
and
8 Map...s
Very detailed Table of Contents.
[ the main chapter headings and some of the chapter sub-headings are listed below ]
Condition
This is a former library book; it has been rebound and has library markings.
A few small tears in the page margin, some small page stains, etc.
Otherwise good.
[ see the photos ]
List of the Illustrations ( Plates )
1. Portrait of George Washington
( from a Miniature enamelled on copper by Henry Bone , R.A., after a portrait made in 1796 by William Birch )
2. Map - Battle of Long Island New York Aug. 27, 1776
3. Map - Operations in New York & New Jersey 1776-1777
4. Map - Burgoyne's Campaign July-October 1777
5. Map - Battle of the Brandywine Sept. 11, 1777
6. Map - Battle of Germantown Oct. 4, 1777
7. Map - First Battle at Freeman's Farm Sept. 19, 1777
8. Map - Second Battle at Freeman's Farm Oct. 7, 1777
( Bemis Heights - Stillwater )
9. Map - Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga Oct. 17, 1777
The Contents includes:
The Beginnings
Relations of the American Colonies to the British Government in the first half of the 1700s
Governor's Salaries
The Lords of Trade
Plan of Benjamin Franklin for a Federal Union (1754)
Rejection of Franklin's plan
Writs of Assistance
Expenses of the French War
The Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
Resolutions of Virginia
Declaration of the Massachusetts Asembly
Attack on the New York Assembly
Parliament did not represent properly the British people
Representation of Americans in Parliament
English Parties 1760-1784
George III and his quarrel with the Americans
etc., etc.
The Crisis
Lord North
John Dickinson and The Farmer's Letters
The Illustrious 92
Impressment of Citizens
The Sloop Liberty
The Statute of Henry VIII concerning " treason abroad "
Samuel Adams in 1768
Arrival of Troops in Boston
Letters of Vindex
Thomas Hutchinson
Conduct of British Troops
Assault on James Otis
The Boston Massacre
Taxes in Maryland
Affair of the schooner Gaspee
Salaries of Judges
How Boston became a Battle Ground
Tea and the Meeting at the Old South
Boston Port Bill
Acts relating to Shooting of Citizens
Quartering of Troops in Towns
General Gage
etc., etc.
The Continental Congress
Belief that the Americans would not fight
Belief that Massachusetts would not be support by other colonies
Samuel Adams at Salem
First Meeting of the Continental Congress Sept. 5, 1774
Franklin returns to America
Feeling in the Middle Colonies
Dr. Warren's Oration at the Old South
Attempt to corrupt Samuel Adams
Ride of Paul Revere
Pitcairn fires on yeomanry at Lexington
Rising of the country - British beseiged at Boston
The Legend of the Mecklenburg " Declaration of Independence "
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen
Appointment of George Washington to command the Continental Army
Bunker and Breed Hill
Excessive slaughter
etc., etc.
Independence
George Washington at Cambridge
Continental Officers
Nathaniel Greene , Henry Knox , Daniel Morgan , Israel Putnam , Charles Lee , etc.
Dr. Benjamin Church
The Last Petition of Congress to King George
Arnold in the Wilderness of Maine
Assault on Quebec Canada
Capture of Montreal
Washington at Dorchester Heights
The Hiring of Myrmidons
Thomas Paine and Common Sense
The Scots in North Carolina
Sir Henry Clinton
The Battle at Moore's Creek and declartion of North Carolina
South Carolina and Georgia
Affairs in Virginia
Actions of other Colonies - Connecticut and New York
Pennsylvania and Delaware
New Jersey
Maryland
The Tryon Plot
Thomas Jefferson
etc., etc.
First Blow At The Centre
Lord Cornwallis
British Plans
Military Problem at New York City
Attack on Harlem Heights
Battle of Fort Moultrie
Washington's retreat into Pennsylvania
Washington prepares to strike back
Crossing the Delaware
Princeton
Washington's Generalship
Benjamin Franklin in France
Lafayette
etc., etc.
Second Blow
Battle of Valcour Island
Horatio Gates
Arnold defeats Tryon at Ridgefield
The Military centre of the United States
Use of Indian auxilliaries
Burgoyne's Address to the Indian Chiefs
The Indians desert Burgoyne
Battle of Bennington and Capture of the German Army
Retreat of the Patriot Army
The First hoisting of the Stars and Stripes
etc., etc.
Saratoga
The Treason of Charles Lee
Campaign of Washington in New Jersey
Battle of Brandywine
Washington's skill in "detaining" the enemy
Germantown
Freeman's Farm
Bad behaviour of Congress
What became of the captured army
etc., etc.
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Biographical Information:
John Fiske (1842-1901)
American philosopher and historian, born in Hartford, Connecticut
His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York and Panama where he died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855.
Born "Edmund Fisk Green, " he changed his name in 1855 to John Fisk, adding the final e in 1860.
He lived at Middletown CT during childhood and until he entered Harvard, where he was graduated in 1863.
Fiske opened a law practice in Boston but soon turned to writing. A wide reader, he had been an enthusiastic follower of Herbert Spencer while in college, and the first part of his life was given mainly to popularizing Spencerian evolution . He tried to reconcile orthodox religious beliefs with science, both on the lecture platform and in such books as Tobacco and Alcohol (New York, 1868), Myths and Myth Makers (Boston, 1872), Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, based on the Doctrine of Evolution (2 vols., London, 1874; republished in Boston), Darwinism and Other Essays (1879), Excursions of an Evolutionist (1884), The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge (1886), and Through Nature to God (1899).
Early in his career Fiske also achieved popularity as a lecturer on history and in his later life was occupied mostly with that field. His historical writings include The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789 (1888), The Beginnings of New England (1889), The American Revolution (1891), The Discovery of America (1892), Old Virginia and Her Neighbors (1897), Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (1899), The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War (1900), and New France and New England (1902).
These books were noted for an easy, lucid, and dramatic style.
