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West Florida conquered by the Spaniards..

Fortress of Omoa captured by the English...

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East and West India Fleets taken by the Spaniards...... 45 Military Operations in America....

Philanthropic Act passed by the Legislature of Pennsyl

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Defection of General Afnbld.

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Victory gained by Lord Cornwallis at Camden.

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Defeat of Major, Ferguson at King's Mountain.

Extravagant Exultation.of the Court Faction in England.. 53

Rupture with Holland

Dissolution of Parliament::.

Remarkable Address of. Sir George Saville..

Meeting of the New Parliament, October 1780..
Mr. Cornwall Speaker...

Debates on the Declaration of War against Holland....
Reform Bill of Mr. Burke revived and rejected. . . . . . . .
Corrupt and extravagant Loan of Lord North....
Pacificatory Motion of Mr. Fox.....

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Review of the Administration of Mr. Hastings in India.. Confederacy of the Powers of India against the English.. 134

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Lord Cornwallis and his Army made Prisoners of War... 254 Solemn Thanksgiving throughout the States of the Union 255 Commodore Johnstone's Expedition to the Cape of Good

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Obstinate Engagement between the English and Dutch
Fleets off the Dogger Bank....

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Motion of Censure on the Earl of Sandwich, by Mr. Fox 277

Lord George Germaine advanced to the Peerage...

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Protest of the Lords against it....

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Mr. Fox renews his Motion of Censure on the Earl of

Sandwich....

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General Conway's Motion against the American War ne-
gatived by a Majority of One Voice only.....
General Conway's second Motion against the American.
War-carried by a Majority of 19 Voices.

Successive Motions of Censure on the Ministers..

Entire Change of Administration....

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Marquis of Rockingham a second Time Minister. . . . . . . .
High and peremptory Claims of the Irish Parliament.... 294
Repeal of the Irish Declaratory Act...

Mr. Burke's Reform Bill a third Time introduced and
passed.....

King's Debts a third Time discharged...
Courtly Adulation of Mr. Burke.....

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Resolutions respecting the Middlesex Election rescinded.. 303 Mr. Pitt's Motion of Enquiry into the State of the Repre

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sentation. Death of the Marquis of Rockingham-His Character.... 320 Advancement of the Earl of Shelburne....

Fatal Divisions amongst the Whigs..

Minorca conquered by the Spaniards.

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Island of St. Christopher, &c. captured by the French.... 328 The Bahamas taken by the Spaniards.....

Decisive Victory of Sir George Rodney over the French

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Fleet off Dominique....

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Glorious Defence and final Relief of Gibraltar. ........ 337

Provisional Articles of Peace with America signed at Paris,

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Extreme Unpopularity of the Coalition Administration.. 360

Act of Renunciation of the Authority of Great Britain over Ireland....

Embarrassments of the East India Company.

Mr. Pitt's Plan of Parliamentary Reform..
Remarkable Petition of the Quakers.

Order of Council for the Regulation of Commerce between

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the Continent of America and the West Indies....... 369 Treaty of Peace signed between England and Holland... 369 Death of Archbishop Cornwallis

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Passes the Commons, but is rejected by the Lords...

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Political Conflict between the Crown and the Commons.. 398

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