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Volume 4 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US History Series in six volumes. “The Author’s Last Revision” 1891 by D. Appleton and Company.

Bancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. His comprehensive study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the “Father of American history."

CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN FIVE EPOCHS
III. AMERICA TAKES UP ARMS FOR SELF-DEFENSE AND ARRIVES AT INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER I. AMERICA SUSTAINS THE TOWN OF BOSTON. May 1774
CHAPTER II. PREPARATIONS FOR A GENERAL CONGRESS. June–August, 1774
CHAPTER III. MASSACHUSETTS DEFEATS THE ATTEMPT OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT TO CHANGE ITS CHARTER. May–August, 1774
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS. September–October, 1774
CHAPTER V. HOW GREAT BRITAIN BEGAN CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, AND HOW VIRGINIA NULLIFIED THE QUEBEC ACT. October–November, 1774
CHAPTER VI. THE FOURTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. October, 1774–January 20, 1775.
CHAPTER VII. THE KING DECLARES MASSACHUSETTS IN REBELLION January–February, 1775
CHAPTER VIII. THE SPIRIT OF NEW ENGLAND. February–March, 1775
CHAPTER IX. THE KING AWAITS NEWS OF SUCCESS. March–May, 1775
CHAPTER X. TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, AND BACK TO BOSTON. April 19, 1775
CHAPTER XI. EFFECTS OF THE DAY OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. THE GENERAL RISING. April–June1775
CHAPTER XII. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION EMANATES FROM THE PEOPLE. May–July, 1775
CHAPTER XIII. MASSACHUSETTS ASKS FOR GEORGE WASHINGTON AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. May–June 17, 1775
CHAPTER XIV. BUNKER HILL. June 16–17, 1775
CHAPTER XV. THE ARMY ROUND BOSTON. June 17–August, 1775
CHAPTER XVI. AMERICA AWAITS THE KING’S DECISION. July–October, 1775
CHAPTER XVII. FINAL ANSWER OF THE KING TO AMERICA. August–December, 1775
CHAPTER XVIII. FINAL ANSWER OF PARLIAMENT TO AMERICA. October–December, 1775
CHAPTER XIX. ANNEXATION OF CANADA. August–December, 1775
CHAPTER XX. ADVANCING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE. Last Months of 1775–March, 1776
CHAPTER XXI. ACTS OF INDEPENDENCE. February–April, 1776
CHAPTER XXII. BRITAIN SEEKS FOREIGN AID. 1775–1776
CHAPTER XXIII. AMERICA SEEKS FOREIGN AID. 1775–1776
CHAPTER XXIV. THE BRITISH RECOVER CANADA. NORTH CAROLINA DECLARES FOR INDEPENDENCE. January–July, 1776
CHAPTER XXV. HOW SOUTH CAROLINA ADVANCED TO INDEPENDENCE. February–July, 1776
CHAPTER XXVI. VIRGINIA PROCLAIMS THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND PROPOSES INDEPENDENCE. May–June, 1776
CHAPTER XXVII. THE PEOPLE OF EVERY AMERICAN COLONY DEMAND INDEPENDENCE. June–July, 1776
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE RESOLUTION AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. From the first to the Fourth of July, 1776

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Originally published in 1891.