The historical companion, with geographical and historical notes

Part First The

HISTORICAL COMPANION,

GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL' NOTES.

CONTAINING rUE CHRONOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM 1492 TO 1S57, AND OP EACH OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES : TABLES OF THE SET- TLEMENTS AND ADMISSIONS OF THE STATES, THE WARS, CAUSES OF THE WARS; BATTLES, PRESIDENTS, AND AMERICAN INTENTIONS; WITH FULL AND COMPLETE NOTES, ETC., ETC.

MAPS OF THE WARS.

BY A. C. WEBB,

PRINCIPAL OF ZANE STREET GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

FOURTH EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY E. C. & J. BIDDLE,

NO. 508 MINOR STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

A. C. WEBB,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA :

PKINTED BY KING & BAIBD,

607 SANSOM STREET.

Preface

The aim of the following pages, as the title implies, is not to supersede, but to accompany, more detailed works upon history; to present at one view, within the compass of a few pages, easily mastered, and convenient for reference, those main facts and events which constitute the framework of history ; facts, too often lost sight of by the untrained mind of the youthful student, while the attention is fixed by glowing descriptions of places, persons, and scenes, clothed with so much interest by the gifted pen of some of our historians. Hence, many persons who have given great attention to the study of history, remain with their minds filled with a mass of details, pictures, and fragmentary scenes, vivid and well-defined in themselves, but so disconnected as to become not only useless, but productive of the grossest errors.

The facts and dates mentioned in this Chronology are written in plain, unadorned language ; brevity, rather than elegance, being the aim of the author. Geographical notes, on all places mentioned, have been added at the foot of each page, and are referred to throughout the work. Notes are also given upon all points that might present any diiSiculty to the learner; and all words, or terms, that may be unfamiliar to a child, have been carefully defined.

A concise Biographical Dictionary of all the names mentioned

in this book, and Maps showing the various territories acquired by

the United States since the Revolution, with the locality of each of

the important battles, &c., are now in course of preparation, and

will shortly be issued. No pains have been spared to make this

work accurate, and as complete and useful as its limits would allow. 1* _ (vii)

Preface To The Fourth Edition

The fourth edition of the Historical Companion presents the work complete, in two parts, according to the original plan of the author.

Part First contains the Chronology, with Geographical and Historical Notes, carefully revised from former editions ; with accurate Maps of ihe Thirteen Original States ; a complete Glossary of Historical and Military Terms, &c., and much additional matter, of great interest to the learner.

Part Second comprises a Biographical Dictionary, prepared with special reference to American History; Genealogical Tables of French and English Kings ; the Genealogy of the Royal Family of England, &c. The whole has been carefully sifted of all useless verbiage — and presents, within the compass of a few pages, a mass of facts not to be found in any other single work. ^

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