A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day (1881) (14765282461)

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Title: A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Philadelphia (etc.) Jones brothers & company San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ent,resigned their offices. A new ministry was immediately formed, favor-able to America, favorable to freedom, favorable to peace. In the begin-ning of May the command of the British forces in the United States wastransferred from Clinton to Sir Guy Carleton, a man friendly to Americaninterests. The hostile demonstrations of the enemy, now confined to NewYork and Charleston, ceased; and Washington made no efforts to dis-lodge the foe, for the war had really ended. In the summer of 1782 Richard Oswald was sent by Parliamentto Paris. The object of his mission was to confer with Franklin andJay, the ambassadors of the United States, in regard to the terms ofpeace. Before the discussions were ended, John Adams, arriving fromAmsterdam, and Henry Laurens from London, entered into the negotia-tions. On the 30th of November preliminary articles of peace wereagreed to and signed on the part of Great Britain by Oswald, and on be-half of the United States by Franklin, Adams, Jay and Laurens. In
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THE END. 355 the following April the terms were ratified by Congress; but it wasnot until the 3d of September, 1783, that a final treaty was effected be-tween all the nations that had been at war. On that day the ambassadorsof Holland, Spain, England, France and the United States, in a solemnconference at Paris, agreed to and signed the articles of a permanentpeace. The terms of the Treaty of 1783 were briefly these: A fulland complete recognition of the independence of the United States; therecession by Great Britain of Florida to Spain; the surrender of all theremaining territory east of the Mississippi and south of the great lakes tothe United States; the free navigation of the Mississippi and the lakesby American vessels; the concession of mutual rights in the Newfound-land fisheries; and the retention by Great Britain of Canada and NovaScotia, with the exclusive control of the St. Lawrence. Early in August Sir Guy Carleton received instructions to evacuateNew York city. Three mon

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