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Title: History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8)
Modern England, 1760-1815

Author: John Richard Green

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HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE

by

JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A.
Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

VOLUME VIII

MODERN ENGLAND. 1760-1815.

London
MacMillan and Co., Ltd.
New York: The MacMillan Co.
1896

First Edition, 1879; Reprinted 1882, 1886, 1891.
Eversley Edition, 1896.

CONTENTS

BOOK IX

MODERN ENGLAND. 1760-1815.

CHAPTER II
PAGE
THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA. 1767-1782 1

CHAPTER III

INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND. 1782-1792 45

CHAPTER IV

ENGLAND AND REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. 1792-1801 97

CHAPTER V

ENGLAND AND NAPOLEON. 1801-1815 144

MAPS

I. THE COLONIES OF NORTH AMERICA AT THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _To face p._ 1

II. EUROPE AFTER THE PEACE OF LUNEVILLE, 1801 146

III.