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John S. C. Abbott. George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago
George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago
Table of Contents
PREFACE
George Washington
CHAPTER I. The Youth of George Washington
CHAPTER II. The First Military Expedition
CHAPTER III. The French War
CHAPTER IV. The Warrior, the Statesman, and the Planter
CHAPTER V. The Gathering Storm of War
CHAPTER VI. The Conflict Commenced
CHAPTER VII. Progress of the War
CHAPTER VIII. The Siege of Boston
CHAPTER IX. The War in New York
CHAPTER X. The Vicissitudes of War
CHAPTER XI. The Loss of Philadelphia, and the Capture of Burgoyne
CHAPTER XII. Concluding Scenes
Footnote
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John S. C. Abbott
Published by Good Press, 2022
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His opulence enabled him to live there in splendor quite baronial. Many illustrious families had emigrated to this State of wonderful beauty and inexhaustible capabilities. There was no colony, on this continent, which could present more cultivated and polished society than Virginia. Distinguished guests frequented the parlors of Lord Fairfax. Among them all, there were none more honored than George Washington. He was one of the handsomest and most dignified of men, and a gentleman by birth, by education, and by all his instincts.
The tide of emigration, pouring in a constant flood across the Atlantic, was now gradually forcing its way over the first range of the Alleghanies, into the fertile and delightful valleys beyond. Still farther west there were realms, much of which no white man’s foot had ever trod, and whose boundaries no one knew.
