The Story of Manhattan
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Chapters (87)
- The Story of Manhattan
- Charles Scribner's Sons 1901
- PREFACE
- INDEX to CHAPTERS
- LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I.
- THE ADVENTURES of HENRY HUDSON
- CHAPTER II
- THE FIRST TRADERS on the ISLAND
- CHAPTER III
- PETER MINUIT, FIRST of the DUTCH GOVERNORS
- CHAPTER IV
- WALTER VAN TWILLER, SECOND of the DUTCH GOVERNORS
- CHAPTER V
- WILLIAM KIEFT and the WAR with the INDIANS
- CHAPTER VI
- PETER STUYVESANT, the LAST of the DUTCH GOVERNORS
- CHAPTER VII
- NEW YORK under the ENGLISH and the DUTCH
- CHAPTER VIII
- SOMETHING about the BOLTING ACT
- CHAPTER IX
- THE STIRRING TIMES of JACOB LEISLER
- CHAPTER X
- THE SAD END of JACOB LEISLER
- CHAPTER XI
- GOVERNOR FLETCHER and the PRIVATEERS
- CHAPTER XII
- CONTAINING the TRUE LIFE of CAPTAIN KIDD
- CHAPTER XIII
- LORD CORNBURY makes HIMSELF very UNPOPULAR
- CHAPTER XIV
- LORD LOVELACE and ROBERT HUNTER
- CHAPTER XV
- GOVERNOR BURNET and the FRENCH TRADERS
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE TRIAL of ZENGER, the PRINTER
- CHAPTER XVII
- CONCERNING the NEGRO PLOT
- CHAPTER XVIII
- THE TRAGIC DEATH of SIR DANVERS OSBORNE
- CHAPTER XIX
- THE BEGINNING of DISCONTENT
- CHAPTER XX
- THE STORY of the STAMP ACT
- CHAPTER XXI
- THE BEGINNING of REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER XXII
- FIGHTING the TAX on TEA
- CHAPTER XXIII
- THE SONS of LIBERTY at TURTLE BAY
- CHAPTER XXIV
- THE WAR of the REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER XXV
- A BATTLE on LONG ISLAND
- CHAPTER XXVI
- THE BRITISH OCCUPY NEW YORK
- CHAPTER XXVII
- THE BATTLE of HARLEM HEIGHTS
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- THE BRITISH FAIL to SWEEP EVERYTHING BEFORE THEM
- CHAPTER XXIX
- NEW YORK a PRISON-HOUSE
- CHAPTER XXX
- AFTER the WAR
- CHAPTER XXXI
- THE FIRST PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES
- CHAPTER XXXII
- THE WELCOME to GEORGE WASHINGTON
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CONCERNING the TAMMANY SOCIETY and BURR'S BANK
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- MORE about HAMILTON and BURR
- CHAPTER XXXV
- ROBERT FULTON BUILDS a STEAM-BOAT
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- THE CITY PLAN
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- THE STORY of the ERIE CANAL
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- THE BUILDING of the CROTON AQUEDUCT
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- PROFESSOR MORSE and the TELEGRAPH
- CHAPTER XL
- THE GREATER NEW YORK
- TABLE of EVENTS
- INDEX
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