E-text prepared by Paul Murray, Jacqueline Jeremy, Lisa Reigel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original maps and links to images of the original pages. See 25536-h.htm or 25536-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/5/3/25536/25536-h/25536-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/5/3/25536/25536-h.zip) The index for the entire 8 volume set of _History of the English People_ was located at the end of this volume (Volume VIII). For ease in accessibility, it has been removed and produced as a separate volume (https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25533). HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A. Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford VOLUME VIII MODERN ENGLAND. 1760-1815. London MacMillan and Co., Ltd. New York: The MacMillan Co. 1896 First Edition, 1879; Reprinted 1882, 1886, 1891. Eversley Edition, 1896. CONTENTS BOOK IX MODERN ENGLAND. 1760-1815. CHAPTER II PAGE THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA. 1767-1782 1 CHAPTER III INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND. 1782-1792 45 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND AND REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. 1792-1801 97 CHAPTER V ENGLAND AND NAPOLEON. 1801-1815 144 MAPS I. THE COLONIES OF NORTH AMERICA AT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE _To face p._ 1 II. EUROPE AFTER THE PEACE OF LUNÉVILLE, 1801 146 III. EUROPE AFTER THE PEACE OF TILSIT, 1807 158 [Illustration: THE COLONIES OF NORTH AMERICA at the Declaration of Independence] CHAPTER II THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA 1767-1782 [Sidenote: Growing influence of public opinion.]