Among the other sources from which I have drawn, I would particularly mention the documents in De Witt's valuable work upon Jefferson, and the elaborate Life of Steuben by Mr. Kapp. Since these Lectures were written, this profound and careful writer has published in German two other works which bear upon my subject, "The Life of DeKalb," and "The Trade of German Princes in Soldiers for America." I will not say with Vertot, mon siége est fait; but I have felt in reading them that, if they had reached me before my own work was written, I might have enriched it by new and important details. I trust that these valuable contributions to our history will soon be made more generally accessible to American readers. Mr. Kapp has proved by his Steuben that he writes English well enough to be his own translator. GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE. GREENESDALE, NEWPORT, February 2, 1865. VII. THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION. VIII. CAMPAIGNS OF THE REVOLUTION IX. THE FOREIGN ELEMENT OF THE REVOLUTION X. THE MARTYRS OF THE REVOLUTION LECTURE I. THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION. HE subject to which I have the honor to in THE vite your attention is one of those events which are sometimes overshadowed for a while by the magnitude of their own results; but which, when time enough has passed to give them a proper distance, and show the extent and variety of their ramifications, take their place among the decisive epochs of civilization. When the thirteen Colonies of Great Britain dissolved their connection with the mother country, and determined that they would henceforth have a government of their own, -a government of the people and for the people, -the name of republic had almost become a byword and a reproach. The United Provinces were fast yielding to the selfish pretensions of the House of Orange, and the monarchical influences by which they were surrounded. Venice an oligarchy from her cradle-was dying, as oligarchies die, enervated and corrupt beyond the power of regen |