Download or read book The American Monthly Magazine, Vol. 14 written by Mary S. Lockwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Monthly Magazine, Vol. 14: January-March 1899 The French ascendency received its death blow on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, and at the treaty of peace which followed In 1763 all the possessions of France east of the Mississippi River fell to the English, and the boundaries of the colonies of Virginia and Maryland remained unchanged until the settle ment of the national boundaries by the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1783. 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.