THE SIEGE OF BOSTON
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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THE SIEGE OF BOSTON
BY
ALLEN FRENCH
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1911.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO C. E. S.
PREFACE
In writing this book I have endeavored to produce a brief and readableaccount of the Siege of Boston, and of the events which brought itabout. These were, of course, parts of a larger history, the connectionwith which I have carefully indicated. My main endeavor, nevertheless,has been to treat my subject as a single organic series of events. Toselect the more interesting and significant masses of detail, andproperly to coördinate them, has not been an easy task. The minorincidents were conditioned by the scale of the book; the result, I hope,is fluency and a more evident connection between the larger events.
So far as possible, I have relied upon contemporary statements. But nowriter on the Siege can fail to acknowledge his deep obligations to the"History of the Siege" by Richard Frothingham. This acknowledgment Igladly[Pg viii] make. Since 1849, however, the date of the publication of thebook, there has come to light interesting new material which I haveendeavored to incorporate here. The other authorities upon which I havechiefly depended will be found by referring to the footnotes.
ALLEN FRENCH.
Concord, Massachusetts,
January, 1911.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER
- I. Beginnings and Conditions
- II. Writs of Assistance and the Stamp Act
- III. Charles Townshen ...
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