Decisive Battles of America - Unknown

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Introduction	[xi]
[CHAPTER I]
Territorial Concepts
European Contests Affecting America and a Summary of American Expansion	[1]
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 Indians	[14]
By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Author of “A History of the United States.”
Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609	[27]
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.
[CHAPTER III]
The Conquest of the Pequots, 1637	[32]
By Richard Hildreth. Author of “The History of the United States of America.”
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Conquest of the Pequots, 1637, and the Defeat of King Philip, 1676.
[CHAPTER IV]
The Defeat of King Philip, 1676	[44]
By Richard Hildreth.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Defeat of King Philip, 1676, and the Capture of Quebec, 1759.
[CHAPTER V]
The Fall of Quebec, 1759	[63]
By Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D., Librarian of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. Author of “France in America.”
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Capture of Quebec, 1759, and the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.
[CHAPTER VI]
I. Causes of the American Revolution, 1775–1783	[79]
II. The Outbreak of War, 1775
By Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of American History in the University of Michigan. Author of “The American Revolution.”
[CHAPTER VII]
The Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775	[102]
By Benson J. Lossing. Author of “The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution.”
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775, and the Battle of Saratoga, 1777.
[CHAPTER VIII]
The Battle of Saratoga, 1777	[120]
By Richard Hildreth.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Battle of Saratoga, 1777, and the Battle of Yorktown, 1781.
[CHAPTER IX]
I. Yorktown and the Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781	[145]
II. The Results of Yorktown
By Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Ph.D.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Battle of Yorktown, 1781, and the Battles on the Lakes, 1813, 1814.
[CHAPTER X]
The Battle of Lake Erie, 1813	[157]
By James Barnes. Author of “Naval Actions of the War of 1812.”
[CHAPTER XI]
The Battle of Lake Champlain, 1814	[173]
By James Barnes.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, in the history of the United States, between the Battle of Lake Champlain, 1814, and the War with Mexico, 1846–1847.
[CHAPTER XII]
The Rupture with Mexico, 1843–1846	[183]
I. The Approach of War
II. Conquering a Peace, 1846–1848
By George Pierce Garrison, Ph.D., Professor of History in the University of Texas. Author of “Westward Extension.”
[CHAPTER XIII]
The Battle of Buena Vista, 1847	[198]
By John Bonner.
[CHAPTER XIV]
Scott’s Conquest of Mexico, 1847	[208]
Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Molino Del Rey, Chapultepec, the Occupation Of the City of Mexico
By John Bonner.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Conquest of Mexico, 1847, and the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1861.
[CHAPTER XV]
Fort Sumter, 1861	[232]
I. Drift toward Southern Nationalization
II. Status of the Forts
III. The Fort Sumter Crisis
IV. The Fall of Fort Sumter
By French Ensor Chadwick, Rear-Admiral U. S. N. (Retired). Author of “Causes of the Civil War.”
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1861, and the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac, 1862.
[CHAPTER XVI]
The Battle of the “Monitor” and the “Merrimac”	[274]
I. A Prelude to the Peninsular Campaign of April to June, 1862
By James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D. Author of “The Appeal to Arms” and “The Outcome of the Civil War.”
II. The Story told by Captain Worden and Lieutenant Greene of the “Monitor”	[279]
By Lucius E. Chittenden. Author of “Recollections of Lincoln.”
[CHAPTER XVII]
Farragut’s Capture of New Orleans, 1862	[288]
With some Notes on the Blockade
By James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between Farragut’s Capture of New Orleans, 1862, and the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, 1863.
[CHAPTER XVIII]
Vicksburg, January–July, 1863	[295]
By James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D.
[CHAPTER XIX]
Gettysburg, July 1–3, 1863	[306]
By James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D.
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, 1863, and Appomattox, 1865.
[CHAPTER XX]
The Last Scene—Appomattox, 1865	[329]
Told by One Who Was Present
By Gen. G. A. Forsyth, U. S. A. (Retired). Author of “Thrilling Days in Army Life.”
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between Appomattox, 1865, and the Battles of Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba, 1898.
[CHAPTER XXI]
The Battle of Manila Bay, 1898	[347]
[CHAPTER XXII]
The Battles of Santiago, 1898	[357]
I. The First Period of the Spanish-American War in the West Indies
II. The Land Campaign
III. The Destruction of Cervera’s Fleet
IV. The Spanish Surrender
V. Controversies Caused by the War
By John Halladay Latané, Ph.D., Professor of History, Washington and Lee University. Author of “America as a World Power.”
Index	[379]

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