CONTENTS.


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Preface[vii]
De Soto’s Expedition[1]
The Fall of Maubila[2]
Bacon’s Rebellion[12]
The Burning of Jamestown[13]
The Deerfield Massacre[16]
The Sack of Deerfield[17]
The Lewises[24]
The Fight of John Lewis[24]
The First Blood Drawn[31]
The Fight at Lexington[33]
Bombardment of Fort Sullivan[40]
Sullivan’s Island[41]
A Turn of the Tide[53]
The Surprise at Trenton[54]
Following the Operations at Trenton[61]
Assunpink and Princeton[63]
Donald M’Donald[67]
Colonel Harper’s Charge[67]
Oriskany[70]
The Fight at Oriskany[71]
Baum’s Expedition[83]
The Battle of Bennington[85]
The Capture of Burgoyne[90]
Arnold at Stillwater[91]
Siege of Fort Henry[95]
Betty Zane[96]
Operations at Monmouth[100]
The Battle of Monmouth[103]
John Berry, the Loyalist[108]
Jack, the Regular[108]
Tarleton’s Defeat[112]
The Battle of the Cowpens[113]
The Affair of Cherry Valley[118]
Death of Walter Butler[119]
The Fight of the Mountaineers[129]
The Battle of King’s Mountain[131]
Mrs. Merrill’s Defence[139]
The Long-knife Squaw[139]
The Last Battle of the War[144]
The Battle of New Orleans[149]
El Molino del Rey[156]
Battle of the King’s Mill[156]
A Tale of the War[160]
The Fencing-master[160]
An Ambuscade[164]
The Charge by the Ford[164]
A New Folk-song[166]
Flag of the Rainbow[166]