Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Capture of Quebec, 1759, and the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775. CHAPTER VI I. CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775–1783 79 II. THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, 1775 By _Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Ph.D._, Assistant Professor of American History in the University of Michigan. Author of “The American Revolution.” CHAPTER VII THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, 1775 102 By _Benson J. Lossing_. Author of “The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution.” Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775, and the Battle of Saratoga, 1777. CHAPTER VIII THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA, 1777 120 By _Richard Hildreth_. Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Battle of Saratoga, 1777, and the Battle of Yorktown, 1781. CHAPTER IX I. YORKTOWN AND THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS, 1781 145 II. THE RESULTS OF YORKTOWN By _Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Ph.D._ Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Battle of Yorktown, 1781, and the Battles on the Lakes, 1813, 1814. CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, 1813 157 By _James Barnes_. Author of “Naval Actions of the War of 1812.” CHAPTER XI THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN, 1814 173 By _James Barnes_. Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, in the history of the United States, between the Battle of Lake Champlain, 1814, and the War with Mexico, 1846–1847. CHAPTER XII THE RUPTURE WITH MEXICO, 1843–1846 183 I. THE APPROACH OF WAR II. CONQUERING A PEACE, 1846–1848 By _George Pierce Garrison, Ph.D._, Professor of History in the University of Texas. Author of “Westward Extension.” CHAPTER XIII THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA, 1847 198 By _John Bonner_. CHAPTER XIV SCOTT’S CONQUEST OF MEXICO, 1847 208 VERA CRUZ, CERRO GORDO, CONTRERAS, CHURUBUSCO, MOLINO DEL REY, CHAPULTEPEC, THE OCCUPATION OF THE CITY OF MEXICO By _John Bonner_. Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Conquest of Mexico, 1847, and the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1861. CHAPTER XV FORT SUMTER, 1861 232 I. DRIFT TOWARD SOUTHERN NATIONALIZATION II. STATUS OF THE FORTS III. THE FORT SUMTER CRISIS IV. THE FALL OF FORT SUMTER By _French Ensor Chadwick_, Rear-Admiral U. S. N. (Retired). Author of “Causes of the Civil War.”