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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 173: CHAPTER VIII.
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 VIII.

GEORGE III. 1777-1778

Letters of Marque granted..... Bill for Detaining Persons in Prison charged with High-treason..... Miscellaneous Debates..... Spirited Address of the Speaker to the King..... Lord Chatham’s Motion for Concessions to America..... Parliament Prorogued..... Successes of Washington..... British Expedition up the Hudson River..... American Expedition to Long Island..... Capture of General Prescot, &c...... Battle of the Brandywine, &c..... Capture of Philadelphia..... Opening of the Delaware..... Close of Howe’s Campaign..... Expedition and Capture of Burgoyne..... Clinton’s Expedition up the Hudson..... Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on America..... Duke of Richmond’s Motion for Inquiring into the State of the Nation..... Fox’s Motion for Inquiring into the State of the Nation..... Army and Navy Estimates..... Intelligence of Burgoyne’s Defeat..... Royal Assent to Several Bills..... Parliament Adjourned.

A.D. 1777