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From a drawing by Howard Pyle
[See p. 105
WATCHING THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

DECISIVE BATTLES
OF AMERICA

BY

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON,
CLAUDE HALSTEAD VAN TYNE, GEORGE PIERCE GARRISON,
Rear-Admiral FRENCH ENSOR CHADWICK, U.S.N. (Retired),
JAMES K. HOSMER, J. H. LATANÉ, RICHARD HILDRETH,
BENSON J. LOSSING

AND OTHERS

EDITED BY
RIPLEY HITCHCOCK

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMIX


Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published October, 1909.


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CONTENTS

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Introductionxi
CHAPTER I
Territorial Concepts
European Contests Affecting America and a Summary of American Expansion1
By Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D., Professor of History in Harvard University. Author of “National Ideals Historically Traced” and Editor of “The American Nation.”
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, in the history of Colonial America, between the Landing of Columbus, 1492, and Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609.
CHAPTER II
A Fight for Life
The Hundred Years’ War Between Early Colonists and the Indians14
By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Author of “A History of the United States.”
Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 160927
By Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609, and the Conquest of the Pequots, 1637.
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