orously--Fort Duquesne Reduced--
Louisburg Again Captured--Wolfe Attacks Quebec--Battle of the
Plains of Abraham--Wolfe and Montcalm Mortally Wounded--Quebec
Surrenders--New France a Dream of the Past--Pontiac's War, 108

THIRD PERIOD.

THE REVOLUTION.

CHAPTER XV.

Causes of the Revolution--The Act of Navigation--Acts of Trade--Odious
Customs Laws--English Jealousy of New England--Effect of Restrictions on
Colonial Trade--Du Chatelet Foresees Rebellion and Independence--The
Revolution a Struggle for More Than Political Freedom, 115

CHAPTER XVI.

Writs of Assistance Issued--Excitement in Boston--The Stamp Act--Protests
against Taxation Without Representation--Massachusetts Appoints a
Committee of Correspondence--Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry--Henry's
Celebrated Resolutions--His Warning to King George--Growing Agitation
in the Colonies--The Stamp Act Repealed--Parliament Levies Duties on Tea
and Other Imports to America--Lord North's Choice of Infamy--Measures of
Resistance in America--The Massachusetts Circular Letter--British Troops
in Boston--The Boston Massacre--Burning of the Gaspee--North Carolina
"Regulators"--The Boston Tea Party--The Boston Port Bill--The First
Continental Congress--A Declaration of Rights--"Give Me Liberty, or Give
Me Death!" 122

CHAPTER XVII.

The Battle of Lexington--The War of the Revolution Begun--Fort
Ticonderoga Taken--Second Continental Congress--George Washington
Appointed Commander-in-Chief--Battle of Bunker Hill--Last Appeal to King
George--The King Hires Hessian Mercenaries--The Americans Invade
Canada--General Montgomery Killed--General Howe Evacuates Boston--North
Carolina Tories Routed at Moore's Creek Bridge--The Declaration of
Independence--The British Move on New York--Battle at Brooklyn--Howe
Occupies New York City--General Charles Lee Fails to Support
Washington--Lee Captured--Washington's Victory at Trenton--The Marquis
De Lafayette Arrives, 133

CHAPTER XVIII.

Sir John Burgoyne's Campaign--His Bombastic Proclamation--The Tragic
Story of Jane McCrea--Her Name a Rallying Cry--Washington Prevents Howe
From Aiding Burgoyne--The Battle of Brandywine--Burgoyne Routed at
Saratoga--H