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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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or seizureby the belligerent powers. War in Europe. Holland joined this league, and concludeda secret commercial treaty with the UnitedStates. This treaty was discovered by GreatBritain almost immediately, and in the fol-lowing manner : The American minister toHolland, Henry Laurens, was captured atsea by a British frigate. He threw his papers,the treaty among them, into the sea, but theywere recovered by an English sailor, whosprang overboard and secured them. Theywere laid before tlie British government,which demanded that Holland should dis-avow the treaty and the correspondence withthe United States. The Dutch governmentreturned an evasive answer, and Englandimmediately declared war against Holland.The English fleet at once proceeded to attackthe Dutch possessions and commerce in allparts of the world. Holland declared waragainst Great Britain, and her fleet was addedto that of France against England. Spain now made an alliance with Franceagainst England, and sent her fleet to co-
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ESCAPF OF BENEDICT ARNOLD. 463 4^4 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. and also laid siege to Gibraltar. The Irishabout the same time demanded a reform ofthe many abuses from which that island hadbeen suffering since the battle of the Boyne,and this demand was sustained by a force ofeighty thousand armed Protestant volunteerswhich had been raised forthe defence of Ire-land against a threatened attack of the French.They demanded an independent parliament,and even threatened a total separation fromGreat Britain. In the face of these difficul-ties the spirit of England rose higher thanever, and that country, with a vigor worthyof her ancient renown, put forth all herenergies to find a way out of her difficulties.The whole world was arrayed against her,but in the face of it she held her own. Theheroism manifested by England at this try-ing period is worthy of the highest admira-tion. Sufferings of the Patriots. The American army passed the winter of1780-81 in cantonments east and west of theHudson.

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