[Illustration: WASHINGTON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.] A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY MARY HOWITT. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. VOL. II. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1860. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS TO VOL. II. CHAPTER I. COMMENCEMENT OF THE GREAT WARS. The Austrian succession.—Renewed treaty with the six nations.—Breaking out of the war.—Governor Shirley attacks Louisburg.—Co-operation of the colonies.—Commodore Warren’s squadron.—Siege of Louisburg.—The city capitulates.—Franklin’s scheme for raising troops.—The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.—Louisburg and Cape Breton returned to the French.—Undefined limits of English and French claims on America.—The Ohio company.—Remonstrance of Duquesne.—Washington’s first service.—Disputes among the colonists themselves.—Franklin’s scheme for general union rejected.—Braddock chosen major-general.—Taxation and discontent.—The English occupy Nova Scotia.—Acadia.—The outrage on the Acadians.—Their unhappy fate.—Braddock’s fancied security.—His discomfiture and death.—Expeditions against Niagara and Crown Point.—Death of Williams and Hendricks.—General feeling in North America for liberty.—John Adams and his teachings 1–19 CHAPTER II. PROGRESS OF THE WAR.—CONQUEST OF CANADA.