The history of England, from the accession of George III. to the close of Pitt's first administration, 1760-1801 - William Hunt

War with France and Spain.

1777-78.	[The opposition and the war]	[186]
Mar., 1778.	[The king's refusal to allow Chatham to form a ministry]	[187]
11 May.	[Chatham's death]	[190]
	[Constitutional importance of the issue of the war]	[191]
	[Abuses in naval administration]	[191]
27 July.	[Naval action off Ushant]	[193]
	[Progress of the war in America]	[193]
	[Lord Howe and Count d'Estaing]	[194]
	[Mistaken naval policy of Great Britain]	[195]
Aug., 1779.	[Combined French and Spanish fleets in the Channel]	[196]
	[The war in various parts of the world]	[196]
12 May, 1780.	[The surrender of Charleston]	[198]
Jan.-Feb.	[Rodney's relief of Gibraltar]	[198]
17 April.	[His indecisive action off Dominica]	[199]
	[Ireland's grievances]	[200]
1779.	[The volunteers]	[202]
	[Removal of restrictions on Irish trade]	[202]
1779-80.	[Activity of the opposition in England]	[202]
2-7 June.	[The Lord George Gordon riots]	[205]

Yorktown and the King's Defeat.

Mar., 1780.	[The armed neutrality]	[208]
20 Dec.	[Dispute with the Dutch: war declared]	[209]
	[Defence of Gibraltar]	[210]
5 Aug., 1781.	[Battle of the Dogger Bank]	[212]
1780.	[General election and the new parliament]	[212]
2 Oct.	[The fate of Major André]	[215]
3 Feb., 1781.	[Rodney takes St. Eustatius]	[216]
July, 1780.	[French squadron at Rhode island]	[218]
16 Aug.	[Cornwallis's campaign in the south: battle of Camden]	[219]
17 Jan., 1781.	[Battle of the Cowpens]	[221]
15 Mar.	[Battle of Guilford]	[222]
May.	[Cornwallis in Virginia]	[223]
	[How England lost command in the American waters]	[224]
19 Oct.	[The capitulation at Yorktown]	[225]
	[Causes of the disaster]	[225]
	[Reception of the news in England]	[226]
	[Events in the war with France and Spain]	[227]
Mar., 1782.	[The second Rockingham ministry; the king's defeat]	[229]

The Rout of the Whigs.

1782.	[Attack on the corrupt influence of the crown]	>[231]
May.	[Legislative independence conceded to Ireland]	[232]
12 April.	[The "battle of the Saints"]	[234]
	[Last scenes of the siege of Gibraltar]	[236]
1780-84.	[War in India and in the Indian waters]	[236]
	[Quarrel between Fox and Shelburne]	[238]
July, 1782.	[Shelburne forms a ministry]	[240]
30 Nov.	[Preliminaries of peace between Great Britain and America]	[241]
	[The American loyalists]	[242]
3 Sept., 1783.	[Definitive treaty of Versailles]	[242]
	[State of parties in parliament]	[243]
	[The coalition between Fox and North]	[244]
April.	[The Coalition ministry]	[245]
May.	[Pitt's motion for parliamentary reform]	[246]
	[Warren Hastings in India]	[247]
Nov.-Dec.	[Fox's India bills]	[249]
Dec.	[The Coalition ministry dismissed; Pitt prime minister]	[251]
	[Struggle on the question of a dissolution]	[251]
25 Mar., 1784.	[Parliament dissolved]	[254]
	[General election: "Fox's martyrs"]	[254]