The Winning of the West, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 472 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 2.

The Winning of the West, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 472 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 2.

CHAPTER

I.—­The war in the northwest, 1777-1778.

II.—­Clark’s conquest of the Illinois, 1778.

III.—­Clark’s campaign against Vincennes, 1779.

IV.—­Continuance of the struggle in Kentucky and the northwest, 1779-1781.

V.—­The Moravian massacre, 1779-1782.

VI.—­The administration of the conquered French settlements, 1779-1783.

VII.—­Kentucky until the end of the Revolution, 1782-1783.

VIII.—­The Holston settlements, 1777-1779.

IX—­king’s mountain, 1780.

X.—­The Holston settlements to the end of the Revolution, 1781-1783.

XI.—­Robertson founds the Cumberland settlement, 1779-1780.

XII.—­The Cumberland settlements to the close of the Revolution, 1781-1783.

XIII.—­What the westerners had done during the Revolution.

Appendices

    Appendix A—­To chapter I.
    Appendix B—­To chapter II. 
    Appendix C—­To chapter III. 
    Appendix D—­To chapter IV. 
    Appendix E—­To chapter VII. 
    Appendix F—­To chapter VII. 
    Appendix G—­To chapter X.
    Appendix H—­To chapter XII. 
    Appendix I—­To chapter XIII. 
    Appendix J—­To chapter XIII.

INDEX

[Illustration:  The Colonies in 1774, when the First Continental Congress assembled.  The heavy line marks roughly the extension of population westward.  Based on a map by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London.]

[Illustration:  The States in 1783, when peace was declared.  Based on a map by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London.]

CHAPTER I.

The war in the northwest, 1777-1778.

    The Tribes Hold Councils at Detroit.

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