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James J. Wilson, Trenton.
Garret D. Wall, do.
Thomas White, Princeton.
N. C. Wade, Rocky Mount.
P. Wilburn.

Jonathan Wood, jr.
William Wilkins.

Zachariah Williams.
Nicholas Ware.
Joseph Wood.
David Witherspoon.

William H. Woolton.
Henry Walker.
John Wilson.
John Woodfin.
Thomas Wells.
B. Ward, Farquier.

William Whitaker, Sandersville.
Henry Walthall, senr. Chesterfield.
Wrightstown Library.

Charles Williamson, Powelltown.
C. C. Watson, Philadelphia.
Thomas Wright.
Samuel M. Witherspoon.
John G. Willingham.

John Williams, Knoxville.

Thomas L. Washington, Washington.
Archibald Young, Young's store.
Bartlet Yancey, Caswell C. H.
Layton Yancey.

J. T. Yoole.

Joseph Zumkusley, jr, D. N. Zeveley.

Of these volumes, Dr. Ramsay was sole author, except chapters 34th, 35th, and the continuation, commencing at chapter 36th. No. I, II, III, IV, and V, of the Appendix were also written or annexed by himself.

CONTENTS

OF VOLUME THE THIRD.

Campaign of 1782; Foreign Events and Negociations;

Page

The State of Parties; The Advantages and Disadvantages

of the Revolution; Its Influence on the minds and morals

of the Citizens.

The discharge of the American army; The evacuation of New

York; The resignation of General Washington.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Civil History of the United States, from 1783 to 1789.

Civil History; The Constitution of the United States.

Domestic Relations; Public Debt; Funding System; Bank

of the United States; Origin of Parties; Insurrection in

Pennsylvania; Its suppression.

Indian and Spanish Relations; Defeat of St. Clair; Wayne's

Victory; Treaty with Spain.

French Relations; Genet; Fauchet; Adet; Treaty of Com-

CHAPTER XXXIII.

British Relations; Jay's Treaty; attack on the Chesapeake;

Right of Search and Impressment; Orders in Council, &c. 74

Relations with the Barbary States; War with Tripoli; Cap-

ture of Derne; Treaty, &c.

Mr. Jefferson elected President; Burr Vice-President; Duel

between Hamilton and Burr; Burr's Conspiracy; Appre-

hension; Trial; Acquittal.

British and French relations; Orders in Council; Imperial

Decrees; Mr. Erskine; His arrangement; Mr. Jackson;

His recall; Mr. Foster; President and Little Belt; Court

of inquiry; Leopard and Chesapeake; Reparation by G.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Berlin and Milan Decrees repealed; Orders in Council

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Embargo of 1807; Non-Importation 1809; Political Clamors

in the Eastern States; Henry's Secret Mission to Boston;

His Communication to the American Government; Indian

Hostilities; Harrison marches against the Prophet; Battle

Call of Congress in 1811; President communicates the state of

the relations of the United States with Great Britain and

France; Congress makes preparations to arm the nation;

Declaration of war.

Disturbances in Baltimore, June and July, 1812; Disturb-

ances in Savannah, November, 1812.

Invasion of Canada; Surrender of Michilimackinac; Re-

treat from Sandwich; Battle of Brownstown; Capitula-

tion of General Hull, &c.

Proposition for an Armistice; United States' Navy; Com-

modore Rodgers sails from New York; Chase of the Bel-

videra; Pursuit of the Constitution; Capture of the Guer-

riere; Capture of the Alert, &c.

Naval Operations on the Lakes; The Enemy attempts the

Capture of the Oneida; Lieutenant Elliot attacks and car-

ries the Detroit and Caledonia; Capture of the Frolic and

Macedonian; Loss of the Nautilus and Vixen.

Battle of Queenstown; Cannonading from Erie to Ontario;

Captain Lyon captures forty British Soldiers on St. Regis ;

Colonel Pike's incursion; General Smyth assumes the com-

mand on the Niagara; Incursion from Black Rock, &c.

Commodore Chauncey takes command of the Lakes; and Major

General Harrison of the North Western Army; Defence of

Fort Harrison; Colonel Lewis defeats the enemy at the

river Raisin; Winchester's defeat.

Proposition for an armistice from the American Government;

One from the British, by Admiral Warren; Second session

of the twelfth Congress; Operations on Lake Ontario; De-

fence of Fort Meigs; Capture of the Java and Peacock, &c. 216

Mediation of Russia; Capture of York and Fort George;

Repulse of the enemy at Sackett's Harbour; Loss of the

Chesapeake; Battle at Stony Creek; Surrender of lieute-

nant-colonel Bærstler; Escape of Major Chapin; The Six

Nations; Defence of Fort Stephenson, &c.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Defeat and Capture of the British squadron on Lake Erie, by

Commodore Perry, September 10th, 1813.

General Harrison's army landed at Amherstburg; Pursues

the British army; Battle of the Moravian town; General

Harrison returns to Detroit; Expedition to Michilimacki-

nac; General Wilkinson descends the St. Lawrence; Battle

of Williamsburgh, &c.

First and second sessions of the thirteenth Congress; Internal

Taxes; Creek War; Naturalized Citizens; New Eng-

land militia; Finances of 1814; Embargo; Proposition

for Negociation at Gottenburgh, &c.; Repeal of Embargo

and Non-Importation acts; Extension of Blockade, &c.

Loss of the United States' brig Argus; Capture of the Boxer;

British squadron in the Delaware and Chesapeake; French-

town, Havre de Grace, Fredericktown, and Georgetown;

Craney Island; Hampton; Operations on the Patuxent;

Battle of Bladensburgh; Capture of Washington and Alex-

andria; Defeat of Sir Peter Parker; Attack on Baltimore. 280

General Wilkinson attacks the enemy at La Cole. Oswego

and Sandy Creek. General Brown invades Canada, and

captures Fort Erie; Battles of Chippewa and Niagara;

General Drummond assaults Fort Erie; Sortie of the 17th

of September, 1814; Capture of the British squadron on

Lake Champlain; Repulse of Sir George Prevost, &c. 306

Blockade of the ships United States, Macedonian and Hor-

net; Cruise of the Essex, and her capture at Valparaiso;

Capture of the Epervier, Reindeer, and Avon; Bombard-

ment of Stonington; Occupation of Eastport, Castine, and

War with the Creek Indians; Battles at Davis's Creek and

Latchway; Massacre at Fort Mims; Battles of Talluschat-

ches, Taledega, Hill bee, Autossee, Alabama, Talapoosee,

Camp Defiance, Emucfau, or Horse Shoe; Submission of

the Indians and Treaty of Peace, &c.

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