The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, during the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. [Illustrated]

This edition features
• five complete volumes collected togeter
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes
• 43 illustrations

COMPILED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF THE HONOURABLE BUSHROD WASHINGTON, FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS BEQUEATHED TO HIM BY HIS DECEASED RELATIVE, AND NOW IN POSSESSION OF THE AUTHOR. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE COLONIES PLANTED BY THE ENGLISH ON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, FROM THEIR SETTLEMENT TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THAT WAR WHICH TERMINATED IN THEIR INDEPENDENCE BY JOHN MARSHALL.

CONTENTS
VOLUME I
VOLUME II
VOLUME III
VOLUME IV
VOLUME V

(abridged list of volumes' contents)
VOLUME I
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
PREFACE BY AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. Commission of Cabot.... His voyage to America.... Views of discovery relinquished by Henry VII....
CHAPTER II. Voyage of Newport.... Settlement at Jamestown....
CHAPTER III. First ineffectual attempts of the Plymouth company to settle the country.... Settlement at New Plymouth....
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CHAPTER XII. Preparations for the campaign of 1758.... Admiral Boscawen and General Amherst arrive at Halifax....
CHAPTER XIII. Opinions on the supremacy of parliament, and its right to tax the colonies.... The stamp act....
CHAPTER XIV. Insurrection in North Carolina.... Dissatisfaction of Massachusetts....
NOTES
FOOTNOTES

VOLUME II
CHAPTER I. Birth of Mr. Washington.... His mission to the French on the Ohio....
CHAPTER II. Colonel Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American forces.... Arrives at Cambridge....
CHAPTER III. Invasion of Canada meditated.... Siege of St. John's....
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CHAPTER IX. Measures to cut off the communication between the British army and fleet.... Battle of Germantown....
CHAPTER X. Inquiry into the conduct of General Schuyler.... Burgoyne appears before Ticonderoga....
CHAPTER XI. Defects in the Commissary departments.... Distress of the army at Valley Forge....
NOTES
FOOTNOTES

VOLUME III
CHAPTER I. Incursion into Jersey.... General Lacy surprised.... Attempt on Lafayette at Barren hill....
CHAPTER II. Count D'Estaing arrives with a French fleet.... Meditates an attack on the British fleet in New York harbour....
CHAPTER III. Arrival of the British commissioners.... Terms of conciliation proposed....
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CHAPTER IX. Transactions in South Carolina and Georgia.... Defeat of Ferguson....
CHAPTER X. Virginia invaded by Arnold.... He destroys the stores at Westham and at Richmond....
CHAPTER XI. Farther state of affairs in the beginning of the year 1781.... Measures of Mr. Morris, the superintendent of finances....
NOTES.
FOOTNOTES.

VOLUME IV
CHAPTER I. Greene invests Camden.... Battle of Hobkirk's Hill....
CHAPTER II. Preparations for another campaign....
CHAPTER III. General Washington devotes his time to rural pursuits.... to the duties of friendship....
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CHAPTER V. The election of General Washington officially announced to him.... His departure for the seat of government....
CHAPTER VI. Meeting of congress.... President's speech.... Report of the secretary of the treasury on public credit....
CHAPTER VII. General St. Clair appointed Commander-in-chief.... The President makes a tour through the southern states....
NOTES.
FOOTNOTES.

VOLUME. V
CHAPTER I. G. Washington again unanimously elected President.... War between Great Britain and France....
CHAPTER II. Meeting of congress.... President's speech....
CHAPTER III. Genet recalled.... Is succeeded by Mr. Fauchet....
CHAPTER IV. Letters from General Washington to Mr. Jefferson.... Hostile measures of France against the United States....
NOTES.
FOOTNOTES.