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Albert F. Blaisdell. Hero Stories from American History
Hero Stories from American History
Table of Contents
PREFACE
HERO STORIES. FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES
APPENDIX
INDEX
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Francis Kingsley Ball, Albert F. Blaisdell
For Elementary Schools
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The British defended their fort for a few days, but could not stand against the fire of the long rifles. It was sure death for a gunner to try to fire a cannon. Not a man dared show himself at a porthole, through which the rifle bullets were humming like mad hornets.
Hamilton the "hair buyer" gave up the defense as a bad job, and surrendered the fort, defended by cannon and occupied by regular troops, as he says in his journal, "to a set of uncivilized Virginia backwoodsmen armed with rifles."
