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Volume 5 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US History Series in six volumes. “The Author’s Last Revision” 1891 by D. Appleton and Company. Volume 5 comprises the American Revolution.

Bancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. His comprehensive study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the “Father of American history."

CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN FIVE EPOCHS
IV. AMERICA IN ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE
CHAPTER I. CAN THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES MAINTAIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE? July–August, 1776
CHAPTER II. THE RETREAT FROM LONG ISLAND. August, 1776
CHAPTER III. THE PROGRESS OF THE HOWES. August 30–September, 1776
CHAPTER IV. OPINION IN ENGLAND. BORDER WAR IN AMERICA. July–November, 1776
CHAPTER V. WHITE PLAINS. FORT WASHINGTON. October 1–November 16, 1776
CHAPTER VI. WASHINGTON’S RETREAT THROUGH THE JERSEYS. November 17–December 13, 1776
CHAPTER VII. TRENTON. December 11–26, 1776
CHAPTER VIII. ASSANPINK AND PRINCETON. December 26, 1776–January, 1777
CHAPTER IX. THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL STATES OF AMERICA. 1776–1783
CHAPTER X. PREPARATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN OF 1777. FRANCE, HOLLAND, SPAIN,
AND ENGLAND. December, 1776–May, 1777
CHAPTER XI. THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1777. March–July, 1777
CHAPTER XII. THE ADVANCE OF BUKGOYNE FROM CANADA. May–August, 1777
CHAPTER XIII. PROGRESS OF SIR WILLIAM HOWE AND BURGOYNE. July–October 20, 1777
CHAPTER XIV. THE CONTEST FOR THE DELAWARE RIVER. THE CONFEDEEATION. September–November, 1777
CHAPTER XV. THE WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE. BRITAIN IN WANT OF TROOPS. November, 1777 to April, 1778
CHAPTER XVI. THE ASPECT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE. 1775–1781
CHAPTER XVII. FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES. December, 1777 to April, 1778.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BRITISH ABANDON PENNSYLVANIA. May–June, 1778
CHAPTER XIX. AFTER THE FRENCH ALLIANCE. June–December, 1778
CHAPTER XX. THE KING OF SPAIN BAFFLED BY THE BACKWOODSMEN OF VIRGINIA. 1778–1779
CHAPTER XXI. THE TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN. REFORMS IN VIRGINIA. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. 1779
CHAPTER XXII. AMERICA IN EUROPE. THE ARMED NEUTRALITY. 1778–1780
CHAPTER XXIII. GREAT BRITAIN MAKES WAR ON THE NETHERLANDS. 1780–1781
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WAR IN THE SOUTH. CLINTON AND LINCOLN. 1778–1780
CHAPTER XXV. THE WAR IN THE SOUTH. CORNWALLIS AND GATES. 1780
CHAPTER XXVI. THE WAR IN THE SOUTH. CORNWALLIS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHWEST. 1780
CHAPTER XXVII. THE RISE OF FREE COMMONWEALTHS. 1780
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE COMPLOT OF SIR HENRY CLINTON AND ARNOLD. 1780
CHAPTER XXIX. STRIVING FOR UNION. 1779–1781

V. THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA TAKE THEIR EQUAL STATION AMONG THE POWERS OF THE EARTH.

CHAPTER I. FRANCE HAS URGENT NEED OF PEACE. 1780–1781
CHAPTER II. THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN. THE SEPARATE COMMAND OF MORGAN. 1780–1781
CHAPTER III. THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN OF GREENE. February–September, 1781
CHAPTER IV. THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF THE AMERICAN WAR. 1781.
CHAPTER V. BRITAIN IS WEARY OF WAR WITH AMERICA. January–June, 1782
CHAPTER VI. SHELBURNE STRIVES SINCERELY FOR PEACE. July–August, 1782
CHAPTER VII. PEACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN.
From September first to the end of November, 1782

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Originally published in 1891.