JOHN WESLEY.—From an old engraving 68 OGLETHORPE’S EXPEDITION AGAINST ST. AUGUSTINE.—From a painting by F. Luis Mora 69 GEORGE WHITEFIELD.—From an old engraving 70 THE ACTION AT CARTAGENA.—From Green’s _History of the English People_ 72 WILLIAM PEPPERRELL.—Sir William Pepperrell. The original painting is in the Essex Institute, at Salem, Mass.; the artist’s name is not known 74 FACSIMILE OF THE NEW YORK WEEKLY _JOURNAL_.—First page of the second number of John Peter Zenger’s newspaper, from an original in the New York Public Library (Lenox Building) 78 ROBERT DINWIDDIE.—After a phototype by F. Gutekunst which forms the frontispiece to vol. ii. of the _Dinwiddie Papers_, published by the Virginia Historical Society 80 MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, 1752-1799.—From _Reminiscences of an Old New-Yorker_. Emmet: New York Public Library (Lenox Building) 83 THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM ON THE MORNING OF THE BATTLE.—From a painting by Frederic Remington 86 MAP OF BRADDOCK’S DEFEAT.—Redrawn from plate 6 of Winthrop Sargent’s _History of Braddock’s Expedition_, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 88 WILLIAM PITT.—From an old engraving 91 SIGNATURE OF JAMES ABERCROMBIE 92 THE CAPITULATION OF LOUISBOURG.—From a painting by Howard Pyle 93 JEFFREY AMHERST.—From an old engraving 94 JAMES WOLFE.—From a mezzotint by Richard Houston in the Emmet Collection, No. 3217, New York Public Library (Lenox Building) 95 WILLIAM BYRD.—From Wilson’s _Washington_ 101 PLAN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 1767.—From Janvier’s _Old New York_, p. 48 103 EDMUND BURKE.—From an engraving after the painting by Romney 106 VIEW OF THE BUILDINGS BELONGING TO HARVARD COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, NEW ENGLAND, 1726.—Partial reproduction of the earliest print of Harvard College. What is believed to be the only extant copy of this old engraving is owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society 109 NASSAU HALL, PRINCETON COLLEGE, 1760.—Redrawn from an old print 111 KING’S COLLEGE NEW YORK, 1758.—Redrawn from an old print 112 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.—From the portrait by Duplessis in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. _Facing p._ 112