DECISIVE BATTLES
OF AMERICA
BY
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON,
CLAUDE HALSTEAD VAN TYNE, GEORGE PIERCE GARRISON,
Rear-Admiral FRENCH ENSOR CHADWICK, U.S.N. (Retired),
JAMES K. HOSMER, J. H. LATANÉ, RICHARD HILDRETH,
BENSON J. LOSSING
AND OTHERS
EDITED BY
RIPLEY HITCHCOCK
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMIX
Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published October, 1909.
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CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | xi |
| CHAPTER I | |
| Territorial Concepts | |
| European Contests Affecting America and a Summary of American Expansion | 1 |
| By Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D., Professor of History in Harvard University. Author of “National Ideals Historically Traced” and Editor of “The American Nation.” | |
| Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, in the history of Colonial America, between the Landing of Columbus, 1492, and Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609. | |
| CHAPTER II | |
| A Fight for Life | |
| The Hundred Years’ War Between Early Colonists and the Indians | 14 |
| By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Author of “A History of the United States.” | |
| Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609 | 27 |
| By Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D. | |
| Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609, and the Conquest of the Pequots, 1637. | |
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