WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

1850.

HISTORICAL STUDIES. One vol. 12mo. BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES. One vol. 12mo. 1860. NATHANAEL GREENE: an Examination of some Passages in the IXth Volume of Mr. Bancroft's "History of the United States." 8vo. 1866.

THE LIFE OF NATHANAEL GREENE, Major-General

in the Army of the Revolution. Three vols. 8vo. 1871.

LATE NON-RESIDENT PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY,
AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE,"

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66 THE GERMAN ELEMENT IN THE WAR OF AMERICAN

INDEPENDENCE," ETC., ETC.

"As to those, however, who shall desire to have a clear view of past events, and
indeed of future ones (such and similar events being, according to the natural course
of human affairs, again to occur); for those to esteem them useful will be sufficient
to answer every purpose."

THUCYDIDES, Book I., c. cxxii.

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