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Colonies 257
General Abercrombie arrives with more troops, and forty German officers to drill and command regiments to be raised in America (which gave offence to the Colonists) 257
The Governor of Virginia recommends Washington, but his services are not recognized 257
Generals Abercrombie and Loudon at Albany hesitate and delay, while the French generals are active and successful 258
The Earl of Loudon's arbitrary conduct in quartering his officers and troops in Albany and New York (in a note) 258
Loudon never fought a battle in America; and in the only battle fought by Abercrombie, he was disgracefully defeated by Montcalm, though commanding the largest army which had ever been assembled in America. Among the slain in this battle was the brave General, Lord Howe, the favourite of the army and citizens 259
The Massachusetts Court appropriate ��250 sterling to erect a monument in Westminster Abbey in honour of Lord Howe 260
Abercrombie--the last of the incompetent English Generals--recalled, and succeeded by Lord Amherst as Commander-in-Chief, assisted by General Wolfe, when, under the Premiership of the elder Pitt, the whole policy and fortunes of the war undergo a complete change 260
Colonel Bradstreet's brilliant achievement in taking and destroying Fort Frontenac 261
Lord Amherst plans three expeditions, all of which were successful 261
Louisburg besieged and taken; heroism of General Wolfe; great rejoicings 262
Admiral Boscawen returns to England; Lord Amherst's energetic movements 262
Niagara taken; Fort du Quesne taken, and called Pittsburg; Ticonderoga and Crown Point taken; Quebec taken 263
Attempt of the French to recover Quebec 266
Parliamentary compensation to Massachusetts (in a note) 267
Montreal besieged and taken, and all Canada surrendered to the King of Great Britain, through Lord Amherst 267
General Amherst's address to the army (in a note) 268
The war not closed; conquests in the West Indies; troubles with the Indians; reduction of the Cherokees 269
Treaty of Paris; general rejoicings 269
Massachusetts benefited by the war 270
Moneys provided by England for the war abstracted from England and expended in the Colonies 270
Grateful acknowledgments and avowed loyalty to England by Massachusetts; the language and feelings of the other Colonies the same 271
CHAPTER IX.
RELATION OF ENGLAND AND THE COLONIES WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 273-279
I. The position of England in respect to the other European Powers after the Peace of Paris, 1763 273
II. The position of the American Colonies, in regard to England and other nations, after the Peace of Paris in 1763 274
III. Effects of the change of policy by the English Government in regard to the Colonies 277
IV. First acts of the British Government which caused dissatisfaction and alienation in the Colonies 279
CHAPTER X.
THE STAMP ACT; ITS EFFECTS IN AMERICA; VIRGINIA LEADS THE OPPOSITION TO IT; RIOTS AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN BOSTON; PETITIONS AGAINST THE STAMP ACT IN ENGLAND; REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT; REJOICINGS AT ITS REPEAL IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA; THE DECLARATORY ACT. 283-293
APPENDIX "A" TO CHAPTER X.
Containing extracts of the celebrated speeches of Mr. Charles Townsend and Colonel Barr�� on passing the Stamp Act 294
Remarks on the speeches of the Right Honourable Mr. Townsend and Colonel Barr��; Puritan treatment of the Indians 296
APPENDIX "B" TO CHAPTER X.
Containing the speeches of Lords Chatham and Camden on the Stamp Act and its repeal 302
Dr. Franklin's evidence at the Bar of the House of Commons 308
CHAPTER XI.
AUTHORITY OF PARLIAMENT OVER THE BRITISH COLONIES. 317-322
CHAPTER XII.
SUMMARY OF EVENTS FROM THE REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT, MARCH, 1766, TO THE END OF THE YEAR. 323-328
CHAPTER XIII.
1767.--A NEW PARLIAMENT; FIRST ACT AGAINST THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK; BILLETING SOLDIERS ON THE COLONIES. 329-336
Raising a revenue by Act of Parliament in the Colonies 330
Three Bills brought in, and passed by Parliament, to raise a revenue in the Colonies 331
Vice-Admiralty Courts and the Navy employed as custom-house officers 334
The effect of these Acts and measures in the Colonies 335
CHAPTER XIV.
EVENTS OF 1768.--PROTESTS AND LOYAL PETITIONS OF THE COLONISTS AGAINST THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENTARY ACTS FOR RAISING REVENUES IN THE COLONIES. 337-352
Petition to the King 337
Noble circular of the Massachusetts Legislative Assembly to the Assemblies of the other Colonies, on the unconstitutional and oppressive Acts of the British Parliament 338
This circular displeasing to the British Ministry, and strongly condemned by it in a circular from the Earl of Hillsborough 341
Admirable and patriotic reply of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the Massachusetts circular 342
Similar replies from the Legislative Assemblies of other Colonies 343
Excellent answer of the General Assembly of Maryland to a message of the Governor on the same subject 344
The effects of Lord Hillsborough's circular letter to the Colonial Governors 345
Experiment of the newly asserted power of Parliament to tax and rule the Colonies, commended at Boston and in Massachusetts 348
Three causes for popular irritation; seizures; riotous resistance; seven hundred soldiers landed, and required to be provided for, which was refused; the Provincial Assembly and its proceedings; ships of war in Boston Harbour