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WASHINGTON AND HIS COUNTRY
IRVING'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON gthibgeb for i\t itse of ^t^ools
WITH INTRODUCTION AND CONTINUATION, GIVING A BRIEF OUTLINE
Prefatory Note
It is some time since my friends, the publishers of this book, urged upon me the desirableness of making an abridgment of Irving's Life of Washington, such as might prove useful as a reading-book in schools, and of supplementing the story by a brief introduction and continuation presenting the most instructive points in the history of the United States, from the first settlement of the country by Europeans down to the close of the Civil War. In following this suggestion, I have not simply abridged Irving's work, but have occasionally interwoven text of my own with his, in view of results that had not been reached in his time. I have done this but sparingly, however. The introduction and continuation make no pretence to completeness, even as outlines. I have sought in them only to arrange some of the cardinal events of American history in suchwise as to illustrate, in view of what went before it and came after it, the significance of Washington's career.
JOHN FISKE.
Cambridge, March 15, 1887.
Introduction
DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA.
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1. The Discovery i
2. French Pioneers 7
3. The English in Virginia 12
4. The Dutch in New Netherland 24
5. The Beginnings of New England 27
6. The Later Colonies 46
7. The Struggle between England and France 49
LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
1. Before the French War 55
4. Preliminary Campaigns of the Revolutionary War . . . 148
CONTINUATION.
HOW THE UNITED STATES BECAME A NATION.
1. The Period of Weakness 507
2. Second War with Great Britain 528
3. Rise of the Democracy 535
4. The Slave Power 548
5. The Civil War . , , , 557
LIST OF MAPS.
I. 4- 5- 6
7- 8.
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