EDITORIAL NOTES ON EVENTS IN THE NORTH 555 ILLUSTRATIONS: Hessian Map of the Hudson Highlands, 556; Stoney Point, 557; Verplanck's Point, 557; Faden's Plan of Stony Point, 558; Paulus Hook, 559. CHAPTER VII. THE NAVAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. _Edward E. Hale_ 563 ILLUSTRATIONS: Fac-simile of Commodore Tucker's Orders to command the "Boston", 566; Esek Hopkins, 569; Autograph of Joshua Barney, 575; of Captain John Barry, 581; Fac-simile of Captain Tucker's Parole at Charleston, 583. GENERAL EDITORIAL NOTES 589 SPECIAL EDITORIAL NOTES 589 ILLUSTRATIONS: Paul Jones, 592; Richard Pearson, 593; Count D'Estaing, 594, 595; his Autograph, 595; Plan of the Siege of Newport, 596; Blaskowitz's Plan of Newport, 597; Sullivan's Campaign Map, 598; View of the Fight on Rhode Island, 599; Lafayette's Map of Narragansett Bay, 600; his Plan of the Campaign on Rhode Island, 602; Autograph of General Solomon Lovell, 603; Map of the Attack on Penobscot (Castine), 604. CHAPTER VIII. THE INDIANS AND THE BORDER WARFARE OF THE REVOLUTION. _Andrew McFarland Davis_ 605 ILLUSTRATIONS: Guy Johnson's Map of the Country of the Six Nations, 609; Joseph Thayendaneken (Brant), 623; Brant, by Romney, 625; his Autograph, 625; St. Leger's Order of March, 628; Peter Gansevoort, 629; the Butler badge, 631; General Sullivan, 637. CRITICAL ESSAY 647 NOTES 673 ILLUSTRATION: Map of Colonel Williamson's Marches, 675. CHAPTER IX. THE WEST, FROM THE TREATY OF PEACE WITH FRANCE, 1763, TO THE TREATY OF PEACE WITH ENGLAND, 1783. _William Frederick Poole_ 685 ILLUSTRATIONS: Henry Bouquet, 692; Plan of Bushy Run Battle, 693; Bouquet's Council with the Indians, 695; Bouquet's Campaign Map, 696; Map of the Illinois Country, 700; Ruins of Magazine at Fort Chartres, 703; Daniel Boone, 707; Plan of Kaskaskia, 717; Lieutenant Ross's Map of the Mississippi, 721; Fac-simile of Colonel Clark's Summons to Governor Hamilton, 727. THE CLOSING SCENES OF THE WAR. _The Editor_ 744 ILLUSTRATIONS: Captain Asgill, 745; Fraunce's Tavern in New York, 747. INDEX 749 NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA. CHAPTER I. THE REVOLUTION IMPENDING. BY MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN, _Librarian Boston Public Library._