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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER |
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Discovery of America |
13 |
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Difference in Character of the People of English and
Spanish America |
14 |
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Sebastian Cabot discovers North America |
15 |
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He touches on Maryland |
15 |
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Verazzini passes the mouth of the Chesapeak |
16 |
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The English attempt to colonize North America |
16 |
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London and Plymouth Companies |
16 |
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Virginia Settled |
17 |
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Capt. John Smith Explores the Chesapeake |
18 |
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Second and third Charters of the Virginia Company |
20 |
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Charters forfeited |
21 |
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Sir George Calvert |
21 |
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Prepares to Found Maryland |
22 |
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His Death |
24 |
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The Charter Issues to his Son Cecilius |
24 |
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CHAPTER I. |
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THE SETTLEMENT OF MARYLAND. |
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The First Colony sails from England |
26 |
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Dangers of the Voyage |
27 |
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Landing at St. Clement's |
30 |
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Exploration of the Potomac |
31 |
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Leonard Calvert's Treaty with the Indians |
32 |
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The Founding of St. Mary's |
32 |
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The Indians of St. Mary's |
34 |
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CHAPTER II. |
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CLAIIBORNE'S FIRST REBELLION. |
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Colony visited by Governor Harvey of Virginia |
38 |
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Claiborne's claims to Kent Island, &c. |
39 |
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His Rebellion and Defeat on the Pocomok |
40 |
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His Flight |
41 |
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First General Assembly of Maryland |
41 |
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Conditions of Plantations |
41 |
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The Isle of Kent |
42 |
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The Second General Assembly |
42 |
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Its Constitution |
43 |
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Dispute the Proprietary concerning the framing of Laws |
44 |
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Trial of one of the Rebels |
44 |
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End of the Rebellion |
45 |
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The Missionaries aong the Indians |
46 |
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Baptism of Tayac |
49 |
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Indian Wars |
51 |
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Settlement on the Schuylkill |
54 |
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Third General Assembly |
54 |
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Town House and Water Mill builg |
56 |
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CHAPTER III. |
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CLAIBORN'S AND INGLE'S REBELLION |
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Success of Parliament over the King in England |
57 |
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Its Effects in Maryland |
57 |
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Claiborne's and Ingle' Rebellion |
57 |
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Governor Calvert takes refuge in Virginia |
59 |
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The Rebels subdued and order restored |
60 |
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Death of Leonard Calvert, first Governor of Marylnad |
61 |
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Thomas Green, Governor |
62 |
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Liberty of Conscience |
63 |
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The Puritans received in the Province |
68 |
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Reduction of Maryland |
70 |
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Troubles with the Indians |
71 |
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Lord Baltimore attempts to recover the Province |
72 |
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Battle of Providence |
75 |
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Execution of the Prisoners by the Puritans |
76 |
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Restoration of the Province |
79 |
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Fendal's Rebellion |
80 |
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CHAPTER IV. |
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THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION |
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Peace and Prosperity |
81 |
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Ppopulation - New Counties - Cities |
82 |
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Negro Slaves |
85 |
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Tobacco Trade |
87 |
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The Friends |
88 |
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Seneca Indians infest the Frontier |
89 |
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Expedition under Major Trueman |
90 |
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Complaints against the Proprietary Government 91 |
91 |
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Support for Episcopal Clergymen |
92 |
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Edward Husband's case - Fendal and Coode |
92 |
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Hostility o fthe Crown to the Province |
93 |
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Protestant Revolution |
93 |
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Convention of the Associators in arms |
95 |
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First Royal Governor |
95 |
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Catholics Disfranchised and Episcopal Chuch established
by law |
95 |
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Contest with the Proprietary |
97 |
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Removal fo the Government from St. Mary's to Annapolis |
98 |
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Downfall of St. Mary's |
98 |
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The French wars - Crown Requisitions |
100 |
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Attemps to Repeal the Charter |
102 |
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Effects of the Royal Administration |
103 |
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Intolerance of the People |
105 |
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CHAPTER V. |
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RESTORATION OF THE PROVINCE |
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Struggles of Democracy |
106 |
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Relations with the Indians |
108 |
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Internal Improvements |
110 |
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Growth of Annapolis - Baltimore - Frederick |
111 |
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Georgetown |
112 |
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Military Affairs |
112 |
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Governors under the Restoration |
114 |
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New Counties |
114 |
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Population - Manufactures |
115 |
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Schools and Churches |
117 |
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Currency |
117 |
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Boundary Disputes with Virginia |
118 |
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With Delaware and Pennsylvania |
120 |
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With Virginia on the West |
124 |
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CHAPTER VI. |
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THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. |
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The last of the Lords Baltimore |
127 |
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The French and Indian War |
127 |
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Congress at albany |
128 |
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Capture of Washingotn at Little Meadows |
128 |
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Maryland takes part in the War. |
128 |
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Gov. Sharpe commander-in-chief of forces on the Ohio |
130 |
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Braddock's Defeat |
133 |
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Its Consequences - Inroads of the Savages |
134 |
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Militia and Volunteers assemble on the Frontiers |
135 |
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Panic of the Inhabitants |
135 |
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Fort Cumberland - Disputes as to its Command |
136 |
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Preparations for a Second Expedition |
138 |
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Defence of the Frontiers - Fort Frederick |
139 |
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New Inroads of the Savaes |
140 |
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March of General Forbes |
145 |
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Grant's Defeat |
146 |
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Fight at Loyal Hanning |
148 |
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Capture of Fort Duquesne and close of the War. |
150 |
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CHAPTER VII. |
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THE DAYS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION |
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The Rights of the People |
150 |
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The Stamp Act - Resistance to it in Maryland |
151 |
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Zachariah Hood, the Stamp Collector, driven from the
Province |
153 |
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Protest of the Assembly |
155 |
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Daniel Dulany |
156 |
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Congress of Deputies from the Colonies |
157 |
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Firmness of the House of Delegates and the people |
157 |
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The Stamp Act declared unconstitutional |
161 |
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Its Repeal |
162 |
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Compliment to Chatham and Camden |
163 |
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Duty on Tea - Opposition of Maryland |
164 |
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Non-importation Societies |
166 |
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The Proclamation and the Vestry Acts. |
168 |
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Daniel Dulany |
170 |
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Revival of the Tax upon Tea |
173 |
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The Maryland Convention |
173 |
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Tea-burning at Annapolis |
174 |
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Second Maryland Convention - the last Proprietary |
176 |
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Retrospect |
177 |
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CHAPTER VIII. |
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THE REVOLUTION. |
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Unanimity of the People of Maryland |
180 |
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Preparations for War |
181 |
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Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill |
182 |
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Association of the Freemen of Maryland |
185 |
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Rifle Companies raised and sent to Boston |
186 |
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Regular Troops - Colonel Smallwood |
186 |
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Material of War - Efforts to Supply it |
187 |
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Lord Dunmore - Coolly's scheme |
188 |
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Dunsmore's Intrigues on the Eastern Shore |
189 |
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The British sloop Otter in the Chesapeake |
191 |
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Gov. Eden compelled to leave the Province |
192 |
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The DELARATION OF INDEPENDENCE |
194 |
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Maryland Troops ordered to join Washington. |
197 |
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CHAPTER IX. |
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THE BATTLES OF THE OLD MARYLAND LINE. |
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Brooklyn Heights |
199 |
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Retreat from Long Island and New York |
203 |
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The Heights of Harlaem |
204 |
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White plains |
205 |
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Storming of Fort Washington |
208 |
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Trenton |
211 |
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Princeton |
212 |
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CHAPTER I. |
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THE NEW CONSTITUTION AND STATE GOVERNMENT |
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Convention to form the Constitution organizes |
215 |
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New Counties formed |
215 |
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Reorganization of the Line |
216 |
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Billl of Rights and Constitution adopted |
217 |
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Contest with Virginia |
217 |
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Form of Government, Legislative, Executive, Judiciary |
218 |
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Progress of Maryland |
220 |
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The first State Legislature |
222 |
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The first State Governor |
224 |
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Exertions to Sustain the War |
225 |
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CHAPTER XI. |
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CAMPAIGN OF 1777 |
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Enemy in the Chesapeake |
226 |
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Attack on Staten Island |
227 |
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Battle of the Brandywine |
229 |
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Defeat of Wayne and Smallwood's Militia |
231 |
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Battle of Germantown |
232 |
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Defence of Fort Miffin |
236 |
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Gist's Militia Skirmish with the Enemy |
237 |
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Maryland Line winter at Wilmington |
238 |
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Alliance with France |
239 |
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CHAPTER XII. |
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78 AND '79. |
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Active measures to fill the State's quota of troops |
240 |
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Tories - measures to repress them |
241 |
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Disputes between the House and Senate |
242 |
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Court of Appeals appointed |
243 |
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Claims to the Western Lands |
244 |
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Campaign of 1778 |
244 |
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Battle of Monmuth |
245 |
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Maryland Line in New Jersey |
248 |
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Campaign of 1779 |
249 |
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CHAPTER XIII. |
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INTERNAL AFFAIRS. |
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Condition of the State |
251 |
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State Marine - Reduced |
252 |
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Bills of Credit - their Depreciation |
253 |
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Provision for the Army |
254 |
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Non-jurors - Mr. Chase charges a Senator with toryism |
256 |
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Naturalization of Foreigners |
257 |
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Second Governor of the State |
258 |
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Paper Money - its Depreciation |
259 |
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Confiscation of the Estates of the Dissaffected |
259 |
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The Confederation |
262 |
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Maryland insists on her claims to the Public Lands |
263 |
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Succeeds - Confederation Ratified |
264 |
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The Articles of Confederation |
265 |
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CHAPTER XIV. |
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THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGNS. |
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Maryland Line ordered to the South |
266 |
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Battle of Camden |
269 |
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Reduction of the Line |
275 |
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Battle of Cowpens - Howard |
278 |
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Greene's Retreat - Williams |
281 |
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Battle of Guilford Court House |
286 |
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Battle of Hobkirk's Hill |
290 |
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Assault on Ninety-six - Augusta |
293 |
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Battle of Eutaw |
295 |
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The Maryland Line and "the Buffs" |
296 |
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The Campaign in Virginia |
299 |
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Triumphal Reception of Washington at Annapolis |
300 |
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CHAPTER XV. |
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THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION. |
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New Issue of Paper Money |
302 |
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Tory Conspiracy in Western Marylnad |
302 |
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Leaders tried and executed |
303 |
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Close of the War and Peace with Great Britain |
305 |
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The Maryland Line during the Revolution |
306 |
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The Cincinnati |
307 |
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Maryland Society |
308 |
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Seat of the National Government |
309 |
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Washington resigns his commission at Annapolis |
310 |
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CHAPTER XVI. |
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EVENTS FORM THE REVOLUTION TO THE WAR
OF 1812 |
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National Debt - State Debt. |
312 |
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State's Bank of England Stock |
313 |
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The Susquehanna Canal - the Potomac Company |
314 |
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Convention between Maryland and Virginia |
316 |
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Ecclesiastical Affairs and Educaton |
316 |
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Smallwood, Governor - Howard |
318 |
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Constitution of the United States adopted |
318 |
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Maryland Convention ratifies and confirms it |
321 |
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Organization of the Federal Government |
323 |
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Public Debt. |
324 |
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District of Columbia laid out. |
325 |
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The Whiskey Insurrection |
327 |
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The French War - Howard |
328 |
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The Right of Suffrage Enlarged |
329 |
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New Judicial System |
331 |
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Difficulties with England |
331 |
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The Embargo |
332 |
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Maryland Sustains the Administration |
333 |
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Declaration of War |
333 |
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Mob at Baltimore |
334 |
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CHAPTER XVII. |
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THE WAR OF 1812 |
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The British in the Chesapeake |
335 |
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Battle of Bladensburg |
336 |
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Battle of North Point - the 12th of September |
340 |
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Bombardment of Fort McHEnry |
343 |
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"The Star Spangled Banner" |
345 |
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CHAPTER XVII. |
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FROM THE PEACE OF 1816 TO THE YEAR
1846 |
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Peace with Great Britain |
346 |
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Growth of Baltimore |
346 |
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Reform Agitation - its early rise and progress |
347 |
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The Nineteen Van Buren Senatorial Electors |
349 |
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Reform of the Constitution. |
353 |
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Slavery and the Blacks |
356 |
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Liberia - Colonization Society |
359 |
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Public Schools |
360 |
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Public Improvements - the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal |
362 |
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Baltimore and Ohio Rail road |
365 |
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Public Debt. |
366 |
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Repudiation |
370 |
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Resumption of the payment of the interest |
373 |
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Agriculture |
373 |
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Manufactures |
375 |
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The Mexican War |
375 |
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Conclusion |
376 |
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APPENDIX. |
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A. List of the Officers of the Battalion and Independent
Companies |
378 |
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B. List of the Officers of the Flying Camp, 1776 |
379 |
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C. Arrangement of the Seven Battalions, 1777 |
379 |
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D. Arrangement of the Maryland Line, June 1st, 1781 |
386 |
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E. Table of Regulars and Militia furnished during the
Revolution |
391 |
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F. List of Members of the Cincinnati Society of Maryland |
392 |
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G. Lords Proprietary of Maryland |
366 |
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H. Governors of Maryland |
398 |
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I. Members of the Maryland Convention of 1776, which
framed the Constitution of the State |
399 |
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J. Ratification of the Constitution of the United States
by the Maryland Convention, 1788 |
400 |
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K. Maryland Senators in the United States' Senates |
401 |
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L. Votes of the Maryland Electors for President and Vice
President of the United States. |
402 |
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M. Population of Maryland, from its first settlement |
403 |
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N. Note to page 22 |
405 |
