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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 149: CHAPTER VII.
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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 VII.

GEORGE III. 1776-1777

Affairs of Ireland..... Debates on America, &c...... Prorogation of Parliament..... Sentiments of Foreign Powers, &c...... Evacuation of Boston by the British..... Mission of Indian Chiefs..... Affairs of Canada..... Unsuccessful Attack on Sullivan’s Island..... Affairs in Virginia..... Declaration of Independence by Congress..... Expedition against New York..... Defeat of the Americans on Long Island..... Conference on Staten Island..... Capture of New York..... Capture of Fort Washington..... Capture of Fort Lee, and Retreat of Washington..... Expedition against Rhode Island..... Successes of General Carleton..... Measures of Congress..... Defection of the Colonists, &c...... Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on America..... Attempt to fire His Majesty’s Dock-yard at Portsmouth.