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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 289: CHAPTER XII.
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 XII.

GEORGE III. 1781-1782

Notice of the Rupture with Holland..... Burke re-introduces the Subject of Economical Reform, &c...... Debates on the Supplies..... Motion on the Employment of the Military in the late Riots..... Petition of the Delegates of the County Associations..... The Marriage Act corrected..... Motion of Fox respecting the American War..... Parliament prorogued..... Attack on Jersey..... The Garrison of Gibraltar relieved..... Revolt in Washington’s Camp..... Arnold’s Expedition to Virginia, &c..... Lord Cornwallis’s Expedition to Virginia..... Siege of Lord Cornwallis in York Town..... Loss of the British Dominion in Florida..... Attack on Minorca..... French and Spanish Fleets in the English Channel..... Naval Action with the Dutch..... Capture of St. Eustatius..... Commodore Johnstone attacked by de Suffrein, &c...... Further Operations in the West Indies..... Sentiments of Foreign Powers toward England..... Meeting of Parliament..... Censures on Rodney and Hauffman..... debate on the Navy..... Motions of Sir James Lowther for Peace, &c.

A.D. 1781