Execution of Andr�. LVIII. Plan to entrap Arnold.�Projects against New York. LIX. The War in the South.�Battle of King's Mountain. LX. Hostilities in the South.�Mutiny. LXI. Battle of the Cowpens.�Battle of Guilford Court-house. LXII. The War in Virginia.�Demonstrations against New York. LXIII. Ravages in Virginia.�Operations in Carolina.�Attack on New London. LXIV. Operations before Yorktown.�Greene in the South. LXV. Siege and Surrender of Yorktown. LXVI. Dissolution of the Combined Armies.�Discontents in the Army. LXVII. News of Peace.�Washington's Farewell to the Army, and Resignation of his Commission. LXVIII. Washington at Mount Vernon. LXIX. The Constitutional Convention.�Washington elected President. LXX. Organization of the New Government. LXXI. Financial Difficulties.�Party Jealousies.�Operations against the Indians. LXXII. Tour Southward.�Defeat of St. Clair.�Dissensions in the Cabinet. LXXIII. Washington's Second Term.�Difficulties with the French Ambassador. LXXIV. Neutrality.�Whiskey Insurrection.�Wayne's Success against the Indians. LXXV. Jay's Treaty.�Party Claims.�Difficulties with France.�Farewell Address. LXXVI. Washington's Retirement and Death. ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBEY By Washington Irving CONTENTS ARRIVAL AT THE ABBEY. THE ABBEY GARDEN. PLOUGH MONDAY. OLD SERVANTS. SUPERSTITIONS OF THE ABBEY. ANNESLEY HALL. THE LAKE. ROBIN HOOD AND SHERWOOD FOREST. THE ROOK CELL. THE LITTLE WHITE LADY. OLIVER GOLDSMITH A Biography By Washington Irving CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER ONE -- I. Birth and Parentage�Characteristics of the Goldsmith Race�Poetical Birthplace�Goblin House�Scenes of Boyhood�Lissoy�Picture of a Country Parson�Goldsmith�s Schoolmistress�Byrne, the Village Schoolmaster� Goldsmith�s Hornpipe and Epigram�Uncle Contarine�School Studies and School Sports�Mistakes of a Night CHAPTER TWO -- II. Improvident Marriages in the Goldsmith Family�Goldsmith at the University�Situation of a Sizer�Tyranny of Wilder, the Tutor�Pecuniary Straits�Street Ballads�College Riot�Gallows Walsh�College Prize�A Dance Interrupted CHAPTER THREE -- III. Goldsmith rejected by the Bishop�Second Sally to see the World�Takes Passage for America�Ship sails without him�Return on Fiddleback�A Hospitable Friend�The Counselor CHAPTER FOUR -- IV. Sallies forth as a Law Student�Stumbles at the Outset�Cousin Jane and the Valentine�A Family Oracle�Sallies forth as a Student of Medicine�Hocus-pocus of a Boarding-house�Transformations of a Leg of Mutton�The Mock Ghost�Sketches of Scotland�Trials of Toryism�A Poet�s Purse for a Continental Tour CHAPTER FIVE -- V. The agreeable Fellow-passengers�Risks from Friends picked up by the Wayside�Sketches of Holland and the Dutch�Shifts while a Poor Student at Leyden�The Tulip Speculation�The Provident Flute�Sojourn at Paris� Sketch of Voltaire�Traveling Shifts of a Philosophic Vagabond