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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The War of Independence, by John Fiske This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The War of Independence Author: John Fiske Release Date: March 13, 2007 [EBook #20803] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE *** Produced by K.D. Thornton, Bruce Albrecht, Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Number 62 (_Double Number_) RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE BY JOHN FISKE WITH MAPS, INDEX AND A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON, NEW YORK, AND CHICAGO The Riverside Press Cambridge Price, paper 30 cents; linen, 40 cents ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Riverside Literature Series THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE BY JOHN FISKE WITH MAPS, INDEX, AND A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH [Decoration] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 85 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue The Riverside Press, Cambridge ----------------------------------------------------------------------- COPYRIGHT, 1889 BY JOHN FISKE COPYRIGHT, 1894 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PREFACE. This little book does not contain the substance of the lectures on the American Revolution which I have delivered in so many parts of the United States since 1883. Those lectures, when completed and published, will make quite a detailed narrative; this book is but a sketch. It is hoped that it may prove useful to the higher classes in schools, as well as to teachers. When I was a boy I should have been glad to get hold of a brief account of the War for Independence that would have suggested answers to some of the questions that used to vex me. Was the conduct of the British government, in driving the Americans into rebellion, merely wanton aggression, or was it not rather a bungling attempt to solve a political problem which really needed to be solved? Why were New Jersey and the Hudson river so important? Why did the British armies make South Carolina thei
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