Volume 3 — CHAPTER VI.

GEORGE III. 1775-1776

Debates on America..... Pacific Measure of Lord North..... Burke’s Plan of Conciliation..... Close of the Session..... Petition of the City of London..... Departure of Franklin..... Proceedings of the Americans..... Expedition to seize Stores at Salem..... Affair at Lexington, etc...... Meeting of the Assemblies and General Congress..... Battle of Bunker’s Hill..... General Washington..... Expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, etc,..... Expedition against Canada..... Disposition and Revolt of the Virginians..... Conduct of Congress towards New York, etc...... Proceedings in England..... Prosecution and Trial of Home Tooke, etc...... Meeting-of Parliament..... Changes in the Ministry..... The Militia Bill..... The Navy and Land Estimates..... Petition of Nova Scotia..... Petition of Congress..... Motions of the Duke of Grafton..... The Land-tax increased..... Burke’s Second Conciliatory Motion..... Lord North’s Prohibitory bill.

A.D. 1775