Book/Printed Material A history of New York, for schools. Volume 2
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Image 2 of Volume 2 LIBRARY OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OP EDUCATION. Class_^Ii1 Book^^H
- Contributor: Dunlap, William
- Date: 1855
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Image 7 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK, SCHOOLS. BY WILLIAM DUNLAP IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. NEW YORK; HARPER BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1855.
- Contributor: Dunlap, William
- Date: 1855
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Image 8 of Volume 2 Entered, According to Act of CongflDss, iu the year 1837 hy WILLIAM pUNfAp, jf In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the Southern DistricfF
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Image 9 of Volume 2 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME, CHAPTER I. Difficulty of arriving at historical trutli, p. 7— Causes of the war of 1775, p. 8— Concord, Lexington, Ticonderoga, Ethan Allen, and Seth Warner, p.…
- Contributor: Dunlap, William
- Date: 1855
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Image 10 of Volume 2 CONTENTS. to command in Schuyler s department, p. 88 Schuyler accused by Gates, and his party, of stopping their letters, p. 89— Battle of Brook- lyn, p. 94 Captain Graydon s account…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 11 of Volume 2 CONTENTS. 5 CHAPTER XVII. American naval prisoners, p. 203— OldJersey prison ship, p. 20i— Suf- ferings of Tliomas Andres, p. 205 Capture and sufferings of a citizen of New York, p. 208…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 12 of Volume 2 ADVERTISEMENT. The author of the History of New York, for Schools, has long been engaged in collecting materials for a history of the city and environs, from the earliest period to the…
- Contributor: Dunlap, William
- Date: 1855
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Image 13 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK, FOR SCHOOLS. CHAPTER I. The interlocutors of the second volume are three boys John, aged fourteen William, aged twelve Philip, aged ten; and their Uncle, aged seventy-one. John.…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 14 of Volume 2 y HISTORY OF NEW YORK. sown the seeds of dissension among the colonists so that in 1775, there were many who were ready- to join the standard of Great Britain w^hen it…
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Image 15 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 9 Wm. But, Uncle Jolm. Hush surely Unc^e knows best. U?i. This first battle, (for the affair of Lexington was a succession of skirmishes without order or de^…
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Image 17 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 11 Un. Cf course further from Boston. In conse- quence of this determination, Colonel William Pres- cott, of Peperill, a veteran officer, who had served in the French…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 18 of Volume 2 12 HISTOR-y OF NEW YORK. of provincials in the former wars, and was destine(3 to be famous afterward as the hero of Bennington. The troops under Starke had of course to pass…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 19 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 13 iilars of this famous day. It is dated 25th June, 1775. John. An action happened on the 17th, between his majesty s troops and a large body…
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Image 20 of Volume 2 14 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. frequent y halting to give time for the artillery to fire. The light infantry were directed to force the left point of the breastwork, to take the…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 21 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 15 casion but is silent with respect to men who were by the vulgar considered the heroes of the day. Both Prescott and Starke cautioned their respective companions…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 22 of Volume 2 16 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. chance shot, fell the highly talented Doctor War- ren a man fitted to guide the councils of his coun- try, or to second her best and bravest…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 23 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 17 Wm. I think we had the best of it Un. True, boy, it was so. It was in its conse- quences altogether in favour of the American…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 24 of Volume 2 18 STORY OF NEW YORK. Un. He was then a very old gentleman, and re- tired to his country-seat near Flushing, Long Island, where he died on the 28th of September, 1776,…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 25 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 19 the Five Indian Nations, the Iroquois, who held during his time so large a portion of what is now the great State of New York. John. Then,…
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Image 26 of Volume 2 20 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. witn lour-and-twenty rounds of powder and ball. Sears was taken with a warrant and carried before the Mayor. As he defied the authority of the king s…
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Image 27 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 21 tend the assembly of Virginia, and John Flaneock was appointed in his place. The provincial con- gress sat in the city of New York, and the great…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 28 of Volume 2 22 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. were exchanged for them, could not return the com- pliment, but complained of insults. John. Was it not about this time, sir, that the con- tinental congress…
- Contributor: Dunlap, William
- Date: 1855
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Image 29 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 23 says, it is remarkable that Washington should have been himself the chief instrument in pro- moting two officers, who at different stages of the war, caused him…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 30 of Volume 2 24 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. had left the province by command of his majesty, to give an account of the troubles in the borders of his government, and he returned to find…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 31 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK.. 23 Joh7i. New York, 26th Jane, 1775. Gentlemen: At the same time that with you I deplore the un- happy necessity of such an appointment as that with…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 32 of Volume 2 26 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. CHAPTER III. Un. General Washington proceeded to Cambridge, and took the command of the forces blockading Boston. By great skill and perseverance he finally expelled the enemy…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 33 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 27 solve something like open hostilities commenced between the man-of-war and the citizens. The pro- vincial congress having directed that the cannon should be removed .from the Battery,…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 34 of Volume 2 28 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. ders, and had been fired upon and one of the men shot dead. My duty, he proceeds, called up- on mc to repel an attack of this…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 35 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 29 possible avoid doing hurt to anyone. Avery harmless kind of threat, surely. John. But I think when a cannon ball is dis- charged into a to\Yn full…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 36 of Volume 2 30 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Other hand, the British landed upon and swept Gard- ner s Island of all the stock they could find. Wm. More and more like war U7b. Still,…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 37 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 31 of full protection under every circumstance. The mayor tells him he will consult the committee, and adds, that people of all ranks express great anxiety that he…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 38 of Volume 2 32 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. missioners to proceed as in the case of a town in actual rebellion, against any place in which violence shall be offered to any of his majesty…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 39 of Volume 2 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 33 vadingf Canada; while in other provinces the king s authority was acknowledged, and dependence on England professed. In no place was this appear- ance of mingled authority…
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- Date: 1855
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Image 40 of Volume 2 34 HISTORY OF NEW YORK. John. This is confusion indeed, sir. Un. When next we meet I will endeavour to make things plain. CHAPTER IV. Un. It is time that I should…
- Contributor: Dunlap, William
- Date: 1855