Transcriber's Note The text version of this volume cannot reproduce the many illustrations it contains. Please see the Note at the end of this text for a brief discussion of the conventions adopted. All illustrations can be seen by consulting the HTML version of this text at Project Gutenberg. Very few corrections were made, and were due to obvious printer's errors, and are cataloged in a note at the end of this text. A few instances of missing punctuation have been silently added, where space for it can be seen on the printed page. Footnotes have been re-numbered sequentially and moved to the end of their respective chapters. All sidenotes (paragraph descriptions) have been gathered at the beginning of each paragraph, and can be considered as an outline. Italics are rendered using the '_' character as _italics_. Text printed in a bold font is rendered using the '=' character as =bold=. The oe ligatures in the original text have been replaced by the separate letters oe in this version, e.g. manoeuvres. Superscripts have been denoted as, for example, B^{ar}. [Illustration: WASHINGTON AT TRENTON By John Trumbull] THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY JOHN FISKE _With Many Illustrations_ TWO VOLUMES IN ONE [Publisher's Logo] _Published for_ THE EDUCATIONAL PRESS _By_ HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY JOHN FISKE COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ABBY M. FISKE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM TO MRS. MARY HEMENWAY IN RECOGNITION OF THE RARE FORESIGHT AND PUBLIC SPIRIT WHICH SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION ONE OF THE NOBLEST HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN AMERICA, AND MADE IT A CENTRE FOR THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP _I DEDICATE THIS BOOK_ [DECORATION] CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS PAGE Relations between the American colonies and the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century 1 The Lords of Trade 2 The governors' salaries 3