INTRODUCTION.
    By the Editor

THE TWO SIEGES OF LOUISBOURG (1745 and 1758).
By A. G. Bradley

THE ALBANY "PLAN OF UNION" FOR THE COLONIES (1745).
By Benjamin Franklin

WASHINGTON'S EXPEDITION TO THE OHIO AND THE BATTLE OF GREAT MEADOWS (1753-1754):

I. By A. G. Bradley

II. Washington's Own Account

THE DEFEAT OF BRADDOCK (1755)

I. By A. G. Bradley

II. Washington's Own Account

THE DEPORTATION OF THE ACADIANS OF NOVA SCOTIA (1755).
     By A. G. Bradley

THE VICTORY OF WORLFE AT QUEBEC (1759).
     By Captain John Knox

THE STAMP ACT AND ITS REPEAL (1765)
     By William E. H. Lecky

DANIEL BOON'S MIGRATION TO KENTUCKY (1769-1775).

I. By Theodore Roosevelt

II. Boone's Own Account

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY (1773)

I. By George Bancroft

II. Governor Hutchinson's Account

PATRICK HENRY'S CALL TO ARMS (1775).
     By William Wirt

LEXINGTON, CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL (1775)

I. By William E. H. Lecky

II. William Emerson's Account of the Concord Fight

WASHINGTON'S APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF (1775).
     By Washington Irving

WASHINGTON'S CAPTURE OF BOSTON (1776).
     Washington's Own Account

THE DRAFTING OF "THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" (1776).

I. By James Parton

II. John Adam's Account

FRANKLIN IN FRANCE.
     By Sir George Trevelyan

THE BATTLES OF TRENTON AND PRINCETON (1777).
     By William E. H. Lecky

THE DEFEAT OF BURGOYNE AT SARATOGA (1777).
     By Sir Edward Creasy

JOHN PAUL JONES'S SEA FIGHT (1779).
     By John Paul Jones

ARNOLD'S TREASON (1780)
     By William E. H. Lecky

THE EXECUTION OF ANDRÉ (1780)

I. By Gen. William Heath

II. The Historian Lecky's View

THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES (1779).
     George Rogers Clark's Own Account

THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS (17810.
     Cornwallis's Own Account

WASHINGTON'S SERVICES IN THE WAR
     By William E. H. Lecky

THE COST OF THE WAR
     By Richard Hildreth