420 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 



tablish it on a more solid foundation than formerly, revived in 

 the minds of the colonists the idea of inde]3endencj : and which 

 miight otherwise have remained for years in contemplation ; and 

 at length perhaps have proved no miore than an amnsing 

 theory." ^ ' ' 



From this initial sentence these three histories to which 

 reference is made in the note run exactly parallel with hardly 

 the variation of a word through pages 425-57, 45-102 and 3-69 

 respectively, in the order named. From this point the second 

 and third part company with Russell to pursue each a separate 

 development. 



We mav next consider a fourth historv of the Revolution* 

 and trace its connection with the others. This historv is 

 ■divided into two parts of which part first has three chapters. * 



The first chapter deals mth the discovery of America, 



1 Russell's History of America, II., 425. 



2 An Impartial History of the War in America between Great Britain and 

 Her Colonies from its Commencement to the end of the year 1779, exhibiting 

 a circumstantial, connected and complete account of the real Causes, Rise and 

 Progress of the War, interspersed with Anecdotes and Characters of the dif- 

 ferent Commanders and Accounts of such Personages in Congress as have dis- 

 tinguished themselves during the contest. With an appendix containing a Col- 

 lection of Interesting and Authentic Papers tending to elucidate the History. 

 Illustrated with a variety of beautiful Copper Plates, representing real and ani- 

 mated Likenesses of those celebrated Generals who have distinguished them- 

 selves in the important contest. London, 1780. Printed for R. Fauldner, New 

 Bond Street. 



Page 45, ch. 1. The History of the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Civil War 

 in America. 



3 The History of the Origin, Rise and Progress of the War in America between 

 Great Britain and Her Colonies, from its Commencement in the Year 1764 to 

 the time of General Gage's Arrival at Boston in 1774. London, Printed. 



Boston, in the State of Massachusetts. Reprinted by Thomas and John Fleet 

 at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill. 1780. 



Page 3, ch. I. The History of the Origin, Rise and Progress of the War in 

 America. 



*The History of the War in America between Great Britain and Her Colonies 

 from its commencement to the end of the Year 1778. In which its Origin, 

 Progress and Operations are faithfully related, together with Anecdotes and 

 Characters of the different Commanders and Accounts of such Personages in 

 Congress as have distinguished themselves during the Contest. To which is 

 added a Collection of Interesting and Authentic Papers tending to elucidate 

 the History. In two volumes. Dublin. Printed for the Company of Book- 

 sellers. 1779. 



Part I. A General History of America from its first discovery to the Com- 

 mencement of the present Civil War. 



