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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
land......April, 1778 Col. Ethan Allen, prisoner of the British since 1775, exchanged, is welcomed to Bennington by a salute of fourteen guns, one for young Vermont ......May 31, 1778 Convention of towns on both sides of the Connecticut River, including eight from Vermont, at Cornish, N. H., proposes to form a State, with capital on the Connecticut......Dec. 9, 1778 Assembly of Vermont declares the union of 1778, with the sixteen towns east of the Connecticut, null and void......Feb. 12, 1779 Legislature of New York refers to Congress to determine equitably the controversy between New York and Vermont......Oct. 21, 1779 Town of Royalton attacked by 300 Indians from Canada; many buildings burned......Oct. 16, 1780 Massachusetts assents to the independence of Vermont......March, 1781 Towns east of the Connecticut annexed to Vermont at their request......April, 1781 Col. Ira Allen, commissioner to exchange prisoners with the British, reaches Ile aux Noix, a few mi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
ntinued to be the rule of Great Britain for a little more than eighty years. Meantime Vergennes, on the twelfth of February, Feb. 12. forwarded the draft of a convention which yielded to Spain all that she required, except that its fourth article maintained the independence of the United States. In respect to this, he wrote, our engagements are precise, and it is not possible for us to retract them. Spain must share them, if she makes common cause with us. Vergennes to Montmorin, 12 Feb., 1779. Yet the article was persistently cavilled at, as in itself useless, and misplaced in a treaty of France with Spain; and it was remarked with ill-humor how precisely the treaty stipulated, that arms should not be laid down till American independence should be obtained, while it offered only a vague promise of every effort to procure the objects in which Spain was interested. Efface the difference, answered Montmorin, and employ the same expressions for both stipulations. The Spanish mi