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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria

Chapter 121: CHAPTER VI.
By Edward Farr
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The volume traces British political, parliamentary, and military developments from the accession of George III through the early nineteenth century, chronicling changes of ministry and cabinet, debates over colonial taxation and the American conflict, parliamentary controversies involving figures such as Wilkes and Warren Hastings, questions of Catholic relief and slave-trade abolition, and responses to the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars, including major naval and continental campaigns, the union with Ireland, and domestic legislation on finance, civil liberties, and parliamentary reform.

CHAPTER VI.

GEORGE III. 1775-1776

Debates on America..... Pacific Measure of Lord North..... Burke’s Plan of Conciliation..... Close of the Session..... Petition of the City of London..... Departure of Franklin..... Proceedings of the Americans..... Expedition to seize Stores at Salem..... Affair at Lexington, etc...... Meeting of the Assemblies and General Congress..... Battle of Bunker’s Hill..... General Washington..... Expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, etc,..... Expedition against Canada..... Disposition and Revolt of the Virginians..... Conduct of Congress towards New York, etc...... Proceedings in England..... Prosecution and Trial of Home Tooke, etc...... Meeting-of Parliament..... Changes in the Ministry..... The Militia Bill..... The Navy and Land Estimates..... Petition of Nova Scotia..... Petition of Congress..... Motions of the Duke of Grafton..... The Land-tax increased..... Burke’s Second Conciliatory Motion..... Lord North’s Prohibitory bill.

A.D. 1775