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Title: The Siege of Boston

Author: Allen French

Release Date: June 21, 2009 [EBook #29199]

Language: English

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THE SIEGE OF BOSTON

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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO
ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

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THE SIEGE OF BOSTON

BY

ALLEN FRENCH

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1911

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1911,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1911.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO C. E. S.

PREFACE

In writing this book I have endeavored to produce a brief and readable
account of the Siege of Boston, and of the events which brought it
about. These were, of course, parts of a larger history, the connection
with which I have carefully indicated. My main endeavor, nevertheless,
has been to treat my subject as a single organic series of events. To
select the more interesting and significant masses of detail, and
properly to cooerdinate them, has not been an easy task. The minor
incidents were conditioned by the scale of the book; the result, I hope,
is fluency and a more evident connection between the larger events.

So far as possible, I have relied upon contemporary statements. But no
writer on the Siege can fail to acknowledge his deep obligations to the
"History of the Siege" by Richard Frothingham. This acknowledgment I
gladly make. Since 1849, however, the date of the publication of the
book, there has come to light interesting new material which I have
endeavored to incorporate here. The other authorities upon which I hav