Excerpt from The Rise of the Republic of the United States In the same spirit I then made collections relative to the opening scenes of the war of the Revolution and, as there was no complete narrative of these events, I published in 1849 the History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord. 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.