Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends
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Sophie Lee Foster. Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends
Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends
Table of Contents
PREFACE
AMERICA
WASHINGTON'S NAME
WASHINGTON'S INAUGURATION
IMPORTANT CHARACTERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON APRIL 19, 1775
SIGNERS OF DECLARATION
LIFE AT VALLEY FORGE
OLD WILLIAMSBURG
SONG OF THE REVOLUTION
A TRUE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION
GEORGIA
FORTS OF GEORGIA
Fort Argyle
Proceed Against Augusta
DuPont Expedition
JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE
THE CONDITION OF GEORGIA DURING THE REVOLUTION
FORT RUTLEDGE OF THE REVOLUTION
THE EFFORTS OF LAFAYETTE FOR THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
JAMES JACKSON
EXPERIENCES OF JOAB HORNE
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MARGARET KATHERINE BARRY, KNOWN AS "KATE BARRY, HEROINE OF THE COWPENS."
ART AND ARTISTS OF THE REVOLUTION
"UNCLE SAM" EXPLAINED AGAIN
AN EPISODE OF THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
STATE FLOWERS
THE COUNTIES OF GEORGIA
AN HISTORIC TREE
INDEPENDENCE DAY
KITTY
Prologue
CHAPTER FIRST
CHAPTER SECOND
CHAPTER THIRD
BATTLE OF KETTLE CREEK
THE DARING EXPLOIT OF GRACE AND RACHAEL MARTIN
A REVOLUTIONARY PUZZLE
SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE REVOLUTION
LYMAN HALL
A ROMANCE OF REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
"FT. MOTTE."
PETER STROZIER
INDEPENDENCE DAY
SARAH GILLIAM WILLIAMSON
A COLONIAL HIDING PLACE
A HERO OF THE REVOLUTION
JOHN PAUL JONES
THE REAL GEORGIA CRACKER
THE DYING SOLDIER WHO GAVE HIS WIFE FOR HIS FRIEND
WHEN BEN FRANKLIN SCORED
A REVOLUTIONARY BAPTIZING
GEORGE WALTON
THOMAS JEFFERSON
ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY
THE OLD VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN
WHEN WASHINGTON WAS WED
RHODE ISLAND IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
GEORGIA AND HER HEROES IN THE REVOLUTION
UNITED STATES TREASURY SEAL
WILLIE WAS SAVED
VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY FORTS
The Fort at Great Bridge
Fort Nelson
Forts of the Northwestern Territory, Kaskaskia, Cahokia and Vincennes
The Capture of Fort Kaskaskia
The Capture of Cohokia and Vincennes
UNCROWNED QUEENS AND KINGS, AS SHOWN THROUGH HUMOROUS INCIDENTS OF THE REVOLUTION
A COLONIAL STORY
MOLLY PITCHER FOR HALL OF FAME
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS
TRAGEDY OF THE REVOLUTION OVERLOOKED BY HISTORIANS
JOHN MARTIN
JOHN STARK, REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
CAPTAIN MUGFORD RAN THE BRITISH BLOCKADE AND CAPTURED POWDER SHIP
GOVERNOR JOHN CLARKE
PARTY RELATIONS IN ENGLAND AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
EARLY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION BY LAND AND WATER
COLONEL BENJAMIN HAWKINS
GOVERNOR JARED IRWIN
EDUCATION OF MEN AND WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
NANCY HART
BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN
WILLIAM CLEGHORN
THE BLUE LAWS OF OLD VIRGINIA
ELIJAH CLARKE
GENERAL FRANCIS MARION
"LIGHT HORSE HARRY."
OUR LEGACY
THE RIDE OF MARY SLOCUMB
THE HOBSON SISTERS
WASHINGTON'S MARCH THROUGH SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
HANNA ARNETT
BUTTON GWINNETT
"FORCED BY PIRATES TO WALK THE PLANK."
GEORGIA WOMEN OF EARLY DAYS
ROBERT SALLETTE
GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO MACON
YES. TOMORROW'S FLAG DAY
FLAG DAY
END OF THE REVOLUTION
COUNTIES OF GEORGIA BEARING INDIAN NAMES
STORY OF EARLY INDIAN DAYS
CHIEF VANN HOUSE
INDIAN TALE
WILLIAM WHITE AND DANIEL BOONE
A LEGEND OF LOVER'S LEAP, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
INDIAN MOUND, EARLY COUNTY, GEORGIA
STORIETTE OF STATES DERIVED FROM INDIAN NAMES
SEQUOIA, INVENTOR OF THE CHEROKEE ALPHABET
THE BOY AND HIS ARROW
INDIAN SPRING, GEORGIA
Romantic Discovery
Reinforcements
Dunlap's History
A Battle and Retreat
Dunlap and Nora
Fate of Our Heroes
Early Settlement
First Outbreak
Public Treaties
Death of McIntosh
An Indian Elopement
TRACING THE McINTOSH TRAIL
GEORGIA SONG
INDEX
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Sophie Lee Foster
Published by Good Press, 2019
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On Tuesday, the eighteenth of April, ten or more British sergeants in disguise dispersed themselves through Cambridge and farther west to intercept all communication. In the following night the grenadiers and light infantry, not less than eight hundred in number, the flower of the army at Boston, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, crossed in the boats of the transport ships from the foot of the Common at East Cambridge.
Gage directed that no one else should leave the town, but Warren had, at ten o'clock, dispatched William Dawes through Roxbury and Paul Revere by way of Charlestown to Lexington.
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