Hero Stories from American History

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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."

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