er.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

In Winsor, "Narrative and Critical History of America", vol. VI (1889),
and in Larned (editor), "Literature of American History", pp. 111-152
(1902), the authorities are critically estimated. There are excellent
classified lists in Van Tyne, "The American Revolution" (1905), vol. V
of Hart (editor), "The American Nation", and in Avery, "History of the
United States", vol. V, pp. 422-432, and vol. VI, pp. 445-471 (1908-09).
The notes in Channing, "A History of the United States", vol. III
(1913), are useful. Detailed information in regard to places will be
found in Lossing, "The Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution", 2 vols.
(1850).

In recent years American writers on the period have chiefly occupied
themselves with special studies, and the general histories have been
few. Tyler's "The Literary History of the American Revolution", 2
vols. (1897), is a penetrating study of opinion. Fiske's "The American
Revolution", 2 vols. (1891), and Sydney George Fisher's "The Struggle
for American Independence", 2 vols. (1908), are popular works. The short
volume of Van Tyne is based upon extensive research. The attention
of English writers has been drawn in an increasing degree to the
Revolution. Lecky, "A History of England in the Eighteenth Century",
chaps. XIII, XIV, and XV (1903), is impartial. The most elaborate
and readable history is Trevelyan, "The American Revolution", and his
"George the Third" and "Charles Fox" (six volumes in all, completed in
1914). If Trevelyan leans too much to the American side the opposite is
true of Fortescue, "A History of the British Army", vol. III (1902), a
scientific account of military events with many maps and plans. Captain
Mahan, U. S. N., wrote the British naval history of the period in Clowes
(editor), "The Royal Navy, a History", vol. III, pp. 353-564 (1898). Of
great value also is Mahan's "Influence of Sea Power on History" (1890)
and "Major Operations of the Navies in the War of Independence"
(1913). He may be supplemented by C. O. Paullin's "Navy of the American
Revolution" (1906) and G. W. Allen's "A Naval History of the American
Revolution", 2 vols. (1913).

CHAPTERS I AND II.

Washington's own writings are necessary to an understanding of his
character. Sparks, "The Life and Writings of George Washington", 2 vols.
(completed 1855), has been superseded by Ford, "The Writings of George
Washington", 14 vols. (completed 1898). The general reade