Excerpt from Barnes' Popular History of the United States of America This preparatory work was the ante-natal growth of the republic which was born July 4, 1776. It is therefore treated in Chapters I to IV as a necessary prelude to the Hundred Years of American Independence. Chapters V to XI, embracing the Revolutionary War, begin the book proper. Here will be found a narrative of those years of wait ing and sacrifice during which the nation achieved its independence. 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.