Hero Tales from American HistoryCentury Company, 1895 - 335페이지 Tells the story of some Americans who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen or where champions of the nation in the various crises of her history. |
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... force , and they were in close alliance with the Indians . roundabout . Clark was anxious to take the town by surprise and avoid bloodshed , as he believed he could win over the Creoles to the American side 3 GEORGE ROGERS CLARK 33.
... force , and they were in close alliance with the Indians . roundabout . Clark was anxious to take the town by surprise and avoid bloodshed , as he believed he could win over the Creoles to the American side 3 GEORGE ROGERS CLARK 33.
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... side . Marching cautiously by night and gener- ally hiding by day , he came to the outskirts of the little village on the evening of July 4 , and lay in the woods near by until after nightfall . Fortune favored him . That evening the ...
... side . Marching cautiously by night and gener- ally hiding by day , he came to the outskirts of the little village on the evening of July 4 , and lay in the woods near by until after nightfall . Fortune favored him . That evening the ...
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... side of the stream . Night was falling , and Cornwallis , feeling sure of his prey , decided that he would not risk an assault until the next morning . Many lessons had not yet taught him that it was a fatal business to give even twelve ...
... side of the stream . Night was falling , and Cornwallis , feeling sure of his prey , decided that he would not risk an assault until the next morning . Many lessons had not yet taught him that it was a fatal business to give even twelve ...
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... side . The fight was a very hot one , and lasted some two hours . Indians , at the beginning of the action , slipped away between the American detachments , but the British and German regulars stubbornly stood their ground . It is ...
... side . The fight was a very hot one , and lasted some two hours . Indians , at the beginning of the action , slipped away between the American detachments , but the British and German regulars stubbornly stood their ground . It is ...
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... side - arms . On the other side Baum had the most highly disciplined troops of England and Germany under his command , well armed and equipped , and he was moreover strongly in- trenched with artillery well placed behind the breastworks ...
... side - arms . On the other side Baum had the most highly disciplined troops of England and Germany under his command , well armed and equipped , and he was moreover strongly in- trenched with artillery well placed behind the breastworks ...
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American armed army artillery assault attack backwoods battle BATTLE OF TRENTON bayonet Boone brave brig brigade British campaign captain captured cavalry charge CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL Civil Clark Colonel column command Confederates courage Creoles crew Cushing daring Decatur decks defeat enemy Farragut feat fell fierce fight fire flag fleet foes force Fort Morgan forward fought French frigate front gallant GOUVERNEUR MORRIS Grant gunboats guns heavy hundred hunter Indians ironclad Jackson JOHN QUINCY ADAMS killed knew Lieutenant Lowell ment Metacomet militia Mississippi Monitor nation navy night North officers once Pemberton Philadelphia port rally ready regiment rifle riflemen river ROBERT GOULD SHAW rode rushed Shaw Sheridan ships shot side slavery sloop-of-war soldiers South STONEWALL JACKSON STONY POINT stood struck struggle terrible tion took torpedo Trenton Tripoli troops Union Union army vessels Vicksburg victory Washington Wasp Wayne wooden wounded καὶ
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301 페이지 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
138 페이지 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
300 페이지 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
290 페이지 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells: Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
301 페이지 - ANY DEPARTURE FROM THOSE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES WHICH THE BELIEVERS IN A LIVING GOD ALWAYS ASCRIBE TO HIM. FONDLY DO WE HOPE — FERVENTLY DO WE PRAY — THAT THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE OF WAR MAY SPEEDILY PASS AWAY. YET IF GOD WILLS THAT IT CONTINUE UNTIL ALL THE WEALTH PILED BY THE BONDSMAN'S TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS...
290 페이지 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
138 페이지 - Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The...
68 페이지 - Set you down this ; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
36 페이지 - Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear : When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...