1776. General Howe evacuates Boston, March 17th. British repulse at Charleston by Colonel Moultrie.
Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress, July 4th. See "Signing of American Declaration of Independence," xiv, [39].
Battle of Long Island; defeat of the Americans. New York occupied by the British. Howe defeats the Americans at White Plains. Fort Washington taken by the British November 16th. Washington successfully surprises the Hessians at Trenton, December 26th.
Riots in England to destroy machinery.
Publication in England of the first volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1777. Washington defeats Cornwallis at Princeton, January 3d. The British burn Danbury. Ticonderoga captured by Burgoyne. Battles of Brandywine and Germantown; defeat of the Americans. Lafayette and Steuben arrive in America.
"Defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga." See xiv, [51].
Division of the Crim Tartars into two distinct parties, the Russian and Turkish.
Execution in England of Dr. Dodd for forgery.
Austria annexes Bukowina.