The Child's History of the United StatesCowperthwait & Company, 1878 - 160 páginas |
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... BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA . 31. FIRING ON THE " STAR OF THE WEST " 32. SURRENDER OF FORT SUMTER 33. CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS " 6 • 34. THE MERRIMACK " ATTACKING THE 35. BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN . 36. SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA . 37. THE ...
... BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA . 31. FIRING ON THE " STAR OF THE WEST " 32. SURRENDER OF FORT SUMTER 33. CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS " 6 • 34. THE MERRIMACK " ATTACKING THE 35. BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN . 36. SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA . 37. THE ...
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... ford now stands . Just in that spot , he was much surprised to see a kind of fort standing near the banks of the river . Some Dutch people from New York had built it for 30 The Child's History of the United States . BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA.
... ford now stands . Just in that spot , he was much surprised to see a kind of fort standing near the banks of the river . Some Dutch people from New York had built it for 30 The Child's History of the United States . BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA.
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... come over the previous year . 6. With a few companions , he visited the spot where Phila- delphia now stands , and there made his famous treaty with 66 the Indians . We meet , " said William The Middle States . 35 BATTLE OF LOOKOUT ...
... come over the previous year . 6. With a few companions , he visited the spot where Phila- delphia now stands , and there made his famous treaty with 66 the Indians . We meet , " said William The Middle States . 35 BATTLE OF LOOKOUT ...
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... battle under such a leader , and the pious Moravians were earnest in their prayers for his safety and success . 9. When the war was over , Governor Oglethorpe returned to England , never more to revisit his colony ; but he left behind ...
... battle under such a leader , and the pious Moravians were earnest in their prayers for his safety and success . 9. When the war was over , Governor Oglethorpe returned to England , never more to revisit his colony ; but he left behind ...
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... and village were supposed to be nearly four thousand Indians . The English attacked the fort , and a dreadful battle followed ; but the English were victorious . They set fire to the fort and the wigwams , and Early Indian Wars . 45.
... and village were supposed to be nearly four thousand Indians . The English attacked the fort , and a dreadful battle followed ; but the English were victorious . They set fire to the fort and the wigwams , and Early Indian Wars . 45.
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Página 26 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Página 26 - This was their welcome home! There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band; — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Página 108 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through, the night that our flag was still there.
Página 108 - And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
Página 109 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Página 108 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Página 108 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On that shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep. Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes. What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Página 109 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation ! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto:
Página 59 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour.
Página 92 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.