lonies against French
encroachments and invasion. i. 244.

Position in respect to other European Powers at the Peace of Paris
in 1763. i. 273.

England--Its resources at the conclusion of the Revolutionary
war. ii. 48, 49.

The war party, and corrupt Administration, is defeated. ii. 48, 49.

Change of Administration and of policy, both for England and the
Colonies. ii. 53.

Names of new Ministers, &c. ii. 53.

English Generals and soldiers refuse to fight against the
Colonists. i. 446.

English Government employs seventeen thousand German mercenaries to
bring the Colonists to absolute submission. i. 446-479.

Its change of policy, and effect of it in regard to the Colonies after
the Peace of Paris, 1763. i. 277.

Its first acts which caused dissatisfaction and alienation in the
American Colonies. i. 279.

Falmouth (now Portland) bombarded and burnt, by Captain Mowat, of the
British Navy. i. 446.

Five-sixths of the male population disfranchised by Puritan bigotry and
intolerance at Massachusetts Bay. i. 63.

Fort de Quesne taken by the English and called Pittsburg. i. 263.

Fox (C.J.)--His amendment to Lord North's address to the King, 1775,
rejected by a majority of 304 to 105. i. 430.

France and England at war; mutually restore, in 1748, places taken
during the first war. i. 242.

Franklin (Dr.)--His evidence at the Bar of the House of Commons on
the Stamp Act, etc. i. 308.

Dismissed from office the following day. i. 426.

His petition to the House of Commons rejected. i. 426.

Proposes to include Canada in the United States. ii. 54.

Counter scheme to defeat the proposition of the English
Commissioners. ii. 58.

Outwits the English Commissioners. ii. 63.

His Indian scalp fictions. ii. 119.

French--Attempt to take Quebec. i. 266.

Bitter feeling between French and American officers and soldiers,
at Rhode Island, Boston, Charleston, and Savannah. ii. 20-25.

Encroachments on the British Colonies, from 1748 to 1756. i. 243.

Evasions and disclaimers, while encroaching on the British Colonies
and making preparations for war against England. i. 245.

Successes in 1755, 1756, and 1757, in the war with England. i. 252.

French Fleet--Its complete failure under Count D'Estaing. ii. 17.

French Officers and Soldiers--Their kindness to the English after
the defeat of Lord Cornwallis. ii. 129.

Gage (General)--His arrival in Boston;