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chiefly depended will be found by referring to the footnotes.
ALLEN FRENCH.
CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS,
January, 1911.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. BEGINNINGS AND CONDITIONS 1
II. WRITS OF ASSISTANCE AND THE STAMP ACT 21
III. CHARLES TOWNSHEND, SAM ADAMS, AND THE MASSACRE 41
IV. THE TEA-PARTY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 71
V. THE OCCUPATION OF BOSTON 91
VI. THE POWDER ALARM AND THE WINTER OF 1774-1775 123
VII. MILITARY PREPARATIONS 161
VIII. THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL 187
IX. BOSTON BELEAGUERED 216
X. THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 256
XI. WASHINGTON TAKES COMMAND 288
XII. EVENTS IN BOSTON FROM JUNE TO DECEMBER, 1775 331
XIII. WASHINGTON'S DIFFICULTIES 361
XIV. THE WINTER IN BOSTON 392
XV. THE EVACUATION 415
ILLUSTRATIONS
OLD STATE HOUSE _Frontispiece_
PAGE
THE HUTCHINSON HOUSE 35
FANEUIL HALL _facing_ 58
SAMUEL ADAMS _facing_ 69
THE INVESTMENT OF BOSTON _facing_ 127
REVERE'S PICTURE OF BOSTON IN 1768 175
THE OLD NORTH CHURCH _facing_ 181
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON _facing_ 193
PLAN OF THE SIEGE 235
THE MINUTE MAN _facing_ 303
THE OLD NORTH BRIDGE _facing_ 303
WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS _facing_ 374
DORCHESTER TOWER 407
GOLD MEDAL COMMEMORATING WASHINGTON'S VICTORY 434
THE SIEGE OF BOSTON
CHAPTER I
BEGINNINGS AND CONDITIONS
The Siege of Boston was the culmination of a series of events which will
always be of importance in the history of America. From the beginning of
the reign of George the Third, the people of the English colonies in the
new world found themselves at variance with their monarch, and nowhere
more so than in Massachusett
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