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Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War Between the States (Classic Reprint)
Building the Nation Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War Between the States - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Carleton Coffin IN the city of Paris, September , I7S3, David Hartley for the King of England, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay for the United States, signed their names to a treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, making the thirteen States forever independent. — The Bovs of ;70 bad fought their last battle. The time had come whe... more »n the red-coated soldiers of the King were to leave the country which, for seven years, they bad tried to snbduo. All through the war, after the battle of Long Island, in 1770, the British had held New York-so long that the officers felt themselves quite at home; hut the time had come for their departure. On November 25, 17S3, after nailing the King's flag to the top of a tall staff, that it might wave over the city after they were gone, they went on board the ships in the harbor and sailed away, past Sandy Hook, out upon the ocean, steering for Halifax. While the last of them were stepping into their boats, the Americans, with drums beating,
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CHAPTER 1 ????; Beginning 13; CHAPTER II Fikst Years ok ??? Constitution 27; CHAPTER III Tkaciitno BY ExAUl'ie 42; CHAPTER IV; Inkivknce ok FllANCK Ul'ON thf,; United States 58; CHAPTER V; POTACES OF ClYTLIZATIOX 63 ; CHAPTER VI Social Life in New England 78; CHAPTER Vll Social Life in Other States 93; I; i; CHAPTER VIII; administration of john adams 112; CHAPTER IX Vrvft with Aloiekh 119; CHAPTER X Oi'KNtNG Yeaks of the Century 181; CHAPTER XT; How tiikkk ???? ?? ?? ???? with England 142; CHAPTER XII Victories on the Sea 15!); CHAPTER xm Second Year ok the ???? 171; CHAPTER XIV; Second and Third Year of tiu:; Wak 187; CHAPTER XV Close ok the ???? with England '207; CHAPTER XVI Fkom 1817 ?? 1832 232; CHAPTER XVII Religious and« less