Excerpt from A Brief History of the United States: With Questions and Summaries for Reviews and Essays XXIII. Defence of Charleston - Battles around New York XXIV. Battle of Princeton Battles near Philadelphia - Bur goyne's Campaign and Surrender XXV. Valley Forge - Monmouth - Wyoming - French Fleet Cherokee War in the South XXVI. Clarke's Taking of the Northwest XXVII. Stony Point - War in the South - Arnold's Treachery XXVIII. King's Mountain - Cowpens - Guilford - Eutaw Springs. XXIX. The War in Virginia - Surrender at Yorktown - Close of the Revolutionary War - John Paul Jones Summary for Reviews and Essays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.