Produced by Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is indicated by _underscores_. [Illustration: From a drawing by Howard Pyle [See p. 105 WATCHING THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL] DECISIVE BATTLES OF AMERICA BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, CLAUDE HALSTEAD VAN TYNE, GEORGE PIERCE GARRISON, REAR-ADMIRAL FRENCH ENSOR CHADWICK, U.S.N. (RETIRED), JAMES K. HOSMER, J. H. LATANÉ, RICHARD HILDRETH, BENSON J. LOSSING AND OTHERS EDITED BY RIPLEY HITCHCOCK ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS MCMIX Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ Published October, 1909. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION xi CHAPTER I TERRITORIAL CONCEPTS EUROPEAN CONTESTS AFFECTING AMERICA AND A SUMMARY OF AMERICAN EXPANSION 1 By _Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D._, Professor of History in Harvard University. Author of “National Ideals Historically Traced” and Editor of “The American Nation.” Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, in the history of Colonial America, between the Landing of Columbus, 1492, and Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609. CHAPTER II A FIGHT FOR LIFE THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR BETWEEN EARLY COLONISTS AND THE INDIANS 14 By _Thomas Wentworth Higginson_. Author of “A History of the United States.” CHAMPLAIN’S BATTLE WITH THE IROQUOIS, 1609 27 By _Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D._ Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609, and the Conquest of the Pequots, 1637. CHAPTER III THE CONQUEST OF THE PEQUOTS, 1637 32 By _Richard Hildreth_. Author of “The History of the United States of America.” Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Conquest of the Pequots, 1637, and the Defeat of King Philip, 1676. CHAPTER IV THE DEFEAT OF KING PHILIP, 1676 44 By _Richard Hildreth_. Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Defeat of King Philip, 1676, and the Capture of Quebec, 1759. CHAPTER V THE FALL OF QUEBEC, 1759 63 By _Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D._, Librarian of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. Author of “France in America.”