Excerpt from A Comprehensive and Popular History of the United States, Embracing a Full Account of the Discovery and Settlement of the Country: The History of Each of the Colonies Until Their Union as States; The French and Indian Wars; The War of the Revolution; The War of 1812; The Long Period of Peace; The Mexican War; The Great War Between the North and the South, and Its Results The first part of the work will be the History of the Colonies; the second part will be the History of the States. With this view, for proper system, the work will be divided into two Parts, or Books. 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.