PEYTON RANDOLPH.—From an engraving after a painting by C. W. Peale 200 WASHINGTON STOPPING AT AN INN ON HIS WAY TO CAMBRIDGE.—From a painting by F. Luis Mora 203 THE LIBERTY SONG.—From _The Writings of John Dickinson_, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 205 SIGNATURE OF JOSEPH HAWLEY 210 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AS IT APPEARED IN 1741.—From a drawing by Gavelot 214 PAGE FROM THE DIARY OF JOSIAH QUINCY, JR.—From Winsor’s _America_. The original diary, kept while he was in London in 1774, is preserved in the Massachusetts Historical Society 216 PROCLAMATION OF THE KING FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION.—From an original of this broadside in the Emmet Collection, No. 1496, in the New York Public Library (Lenox Building) 218 GAGE’S ORDER PERMITTING INHABITANTS TO LEAVE BOSTON.—From Winsor’s _Boston_. The handwriting is that of James Bowdoin 220 NOTICE TO MILITIA.—From an original in the Massachusetts Historical Society 224 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONCORD FIGHT.—From Winsor’s _America_. The original is in the Arthur Lee Papers, preserved at Harvard College Library 225 SIGNATURE OF ETHAN ALLEN 226 RUINS OF FORT TICONDEROGA.—Redrawn from an old print 227 WATCHING THE FIGHT AT BUNKER HILL.—From a painting by Howard Pyle 228 FROM BEACON HILL, 1775, NO. 1. (LOOKING TOWARDS DORCHESTER HEIGHTS.)—From Winsor’s _America_ 230 FROM BEACON HILL, 1775, NO. 2. (LOOKING TOWARDS ROXBURY.)—From Winsor’s _America_ 231 ORDER OF COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.—From Winsor’s _America_ 232 BOSTON AND BUNKER HILL, FROM A PRINT PUBLISHED IN 1781.—Redrawn from a plan in _An Impartial History of the War in America_ 234 RICHARD MONTGOMERY.—From an old engraving 238 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AS A POLITICIAN.—From a painting by Stephen Elmer 240 R. H. LEE’S RESOLUTION FOR INDEPENDENCE.—From McMaster’s _School History of the United States_ 241 STATE HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA, 1778.—From a photograph of the original drawing 242 SIGNATURE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 243