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[Illustration:
From a drawing by Howard Pyle [See p. 105
WATCHING THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL]
DECISIVE BATTLES
OF AMERICA
BY
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON,
CLAUDE HALSTEAD VAN TYNE, GEORGE PIERCE GARRISON,
REAR-ADMIRAL FRENCH ENSOR CHADWICK, U.S.N. (RETIRED),
JAMES K. HOSMER, J. H. LATANÉ, RICHARD HILDRETH,
BENSON J. LOSSING
AND OTHERS
EDITED BY
RIPLEY HITCHCOCK
ILLUSTRATED
[Illustration]
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMIX
Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
_All rights reserved._
Published October, 1909.
CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION xi
CHAPTER I
TERRITORIAL CONCEPTS
EUROPEAN CONTESTS AFFECTING AMERICA AND A SUMMARY OF AMERICAN
EXPANSION 1
By _Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D._, Professor of History in
Harvard University. Author of “National Ideals Historically
Traced” and Editor of “The American Nation.”
Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, in the
history of Colonial America, between the Landing of Columbus,
1492, and Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609.