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Adams's _Letters to his Wife_, Morse's _Hamilton_, Gay's _Madison_, Roosevelt's _Gouverneur Morris_, Russell's _Fox_, Albemarle's _Rockingham_, Fitzmaurice's _Shelburne_, MacKnight's _Burke_, Macaulay's essay on _Chatham_. 3. FICTION. Cooper's _Chainbearer_, Miss Sedgwick's _Linwoods_, Paulding's _Old Continental_, Mrs. Child's _Rebels_, Motley's _Morton's Hope_, Herman Melville's _Israel Potter_, Kennedy's _Horse Shoe Robinson_. There is an account of the battle of Bunker Hill in Cooper's _Lionel Lincoln_. Thompson's _Green Mountain Boys_ gives interesting descriptions of many of the events in that region. The border warfare is treated in Grace Greenwood's _Forest Tragedy_ and Hoffman's _Greyslaer_. Simms's _Partisan_ and _Mellichampe_ deal with events in South Carolina in 1780, and later events are covered in his _Scout_, _Katharine Walford_, _Woodcraft_, _Forayers_, and _Eutaw_. See also Miss Sedgwick's _Walter Thornley_, and Cooper's _Pilot_ and _Spy_, and H. C. Watson's _Camp Fires of the Revolution_. The scenes of _Paul and Persis_, by Mary E. Brush, are laid in the Mohawk Valley. For further references, see Justin Winsor's _Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution_, a book which is absolutely indispensable to every one who wishes to study the subject. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- INDEX. Adams, John, 46, 84, 88, 89, 98, 100, 113, 149, 182. Adams, Samuel, 53, 58, 68, 71, 72, 73, 75, 78, 82, 84, 85, 88, 107, 149. Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, 6. Albany Congress, 34, 190. Albany Plan, 35. Algonquins, 28-30, 37. Alleghany mountains, 27. Allen, Ethan, 87. Andre John, 170, 171. Andros, Sir Edmund, 22. Annapolis convention, 189. Antislavery feeling, 126. Armada, the Invincible, 6. Armed Neutrality, 159. Army, continental, 88, 124; disbanded, 183. Arnold, Benedict, 87, 93, 94, 118, 136, 137, 143, 167-171, 173, 175, 177, 179. Ashe, Samuel, 163. Attucks, Crispus, 75. Augusta, Ga., 163. Bacon's rebellion, 21. Baltimore, Congress flees to, 118. Barons' War, 19. Barre, Isaac, 69, 75. Barter, 162. Baum, Col., 134. Bemis Heights, 143. Bennington, 133, 134, 137, 172. Berkeley, Sir W., 21. Bernard, Sir F., 68, 72. Boston, 7, 44-47; "Massacre," 72-75; "Tea Party," 79-83; Port Bill, 83; siege of, 87-94. Braddock, Edward, 36. Brandywine, 141. Brant, Joseph, 108, 135, 136, 154,
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