* * * * * These are a few only of the subjects of interest to be found in the work. No efforts has been spared to encompass and exhaust the whole subject, with the view to render the work _an authority_. List of Maps and Illustrations. 1. VIEW OF WEST POINT ON THE HUDSON RIVER. 1780. (_Fac-simile._) A perspective view, by Major L'Enfant, Engineer, of the west side of the Highlands, above and below the Point, twelve miles in extent, with the camps of the army and the fortifications plainly indicated. 2. MAP OF WEST POINT AND ITS FORTIFICATIONS. 1780. (_Fac-simile._) This map of Maj. Villefranche, Engineer, is said to have been used at the interview between Arnold and Andre. 3. MAP OF FORT CONSTITUTION, ON CONSTITUTION ISLAND. 1776. 4. MAP OF FORT ARNOLD. 1780. (_Fac-simile._) 5. ARRANGEMENT OF THE GREAT BOOM AND CHAIN ACROSS THE HUDSON AT WEST POINT. 1780. 6. MARTELAER'S ROCK (Constitution Island). 7. MAP OF THE WEST SIDE OF THE HUDSON RIVER. 1780. (_Fac-simile._) From Haverstraw to West Point, illustrating the capture of Forts Montgomery and Clinton. 8. RELIC OF THE GREAT CHAIN OF THE REVOLUTION. 9. MAP OF THE SCENE OF ARNOLD'S TREASON. 10. CHAPTER VIGNETTE. 11. GRAND ARBOR AND COLONNADE AT WEST POINT IN 1782. (_Fac-simile._) _Colored._ 12. ROBINSON'S HOUSE IN THE HIGHLANDS. 13. RUINS OF FORT CONSTITUTION. _From the West Point Hotel._ 14. RUINS OF FORT PUTNAM (_interior view_). 15. MAP OF THE COMMISSION IN 1812, RELATIVE TO THE UNITED STATES LANDS AT WEST POINT. 16. SURVEY OF THE UNITED STATES LANDS AT WEST POINT. 1839. 17. MAP OF WEST POINT IN 1863, _with all the details_. 18. FORT PUTNAM, _from the West Point Hotel_. 1863. 19. THE OLD ACADEMIC BUILDING, _looking south-east_. 20. THE OLD MESS-HALL, _looking south-west_. 21. THE OLD NORTH BARRACKS, _looking north-east_. 22. THE OLD SOUTH BARRACKS, _looking south-east_. 23. THE NEW MESS-HALL, _looking south-west_. 24. THE NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING, _looking south-west_. 25. THE NEW CADET BARRACKS, _looking south-east_. 26. THE LIBRARY AND OBSERVATORY, _looking south-east_. 27. THE WEST POINT HOTEL, _looking north-west_. 28. THE CHAPEL, _north front_. 29. THE THIRTEEN-INCH MORTAR AT THE SEACOAST BATTERY. 30. THE TROPHY GUNS. 31. KOSCIUSZKO'S MONUMENT. 32. THE CADET'S MONUMENT. 33. DADE'S MONUMENT. 34. WOOD'S MONUMENT. 35. MILITARY ACADEMY BAND. 36. THE ENCAMPMENT. NOTICES OF THE PRESS.