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ILLUSTRATIONS
ОглавлениеPioneers on the Overland Route, Westward
Patrick Henry Delivering His Speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses
Patriots in New York Destroying Stamps Intended for Use in Connecticut
Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia
Monument on Lexington Common Marking the Line of the Minutemen
Washington, Henry, and Pendleton on the Way to Congress at Philadelphia
The Washington Elm at Cambridge, under which Washington took Command of the Army
Thomas Jefferson Looking Over the Rough Draught of the Declaration of Independence
British and Hessian Soldiers
Powder-Horn, Bullet-Flask, and Buckshot-Pouch Used in the Revolution
General Burgoyne Surrendering to General Gates
Marquis de Lafayette
Lafayette Offering His Services to Franklin
Winter at Valley Forge
Nathanael Greene
The Meeting of Greene and Gates upon Greene’s Assuming Command
Daniel Morgan
Francis Marion
Marion Surprising a British Wagon-Train
John Paul Jones
Battle Between the Ranger and the Drake
The Fight Between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis
Daniel Boone
Boone’s Escape from the Indians
Boonesborough
Boone Throwing Tobacco into the Eyes of the Indians Who Had Come to Capture Him
James Robertson
Living-Room of the Early Settler
Grinding Indian Corn
A Kentucky Pioneer’s Cabin
John Sevier
A Barbecue of 1780
Battle of King’s Mountain
George Rogers Clark
Clark on the Way to Kaskaskia
Clark’s Surprise at Kaskaskia
Wampum Peace Belt
Clark’s Advance on Vincennes
George Washington
Washington’s Home, Mount Vernon
Tribute Rendered to Washington at Trenton
Washington Taking the Oath of Office as First President, at Federal Hall, New York City
Washington’s Inaugural Chair
Eli Whitney
Whitney’s Cotton-Gin
A Colonial Planter
A Slave Settlement
Thomas Jefferson
“Monticello,” the Home of Jefferson
A Rice-Field in Louisiana
A Flatboat on the Ohio River
House in New Orleans Where Louis Philippe Stopped in 1798
A Public Building in New Orleans Built in 1794
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Buffalo Hunted by Indians
The Lewis and Clark Expedition Working Its Way Westward
Andrew Jackson
“The Hermitage,” the Home of Andrew Jackson
Fighting the Seminole Indians, under Jackson
Robert Fulton
Fulton’s First Experiment with Paddle-Wheels
The “Clermont” in Duplicate at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909
The Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825
The Ceremony Called “The Marriage of the Waters”
Erie Canal on the Right and Aqueduct over the Mohawk River, New York
“Tom Thumb,” Peter Cooper’s Locomotive Working Model, First Used near Baltimore in 1830
Railroad Poster of 1843
Comparison of “DeWitt Clinton” Locomotive and Train, the First Train Operated in New York, with a Modern Locomotive of the New York Central R.R.
S.F.B. Morse
The First Telegraph Instrument
Modern Telegraph Office
The Operation of the Modern Railroad is Dependent upon the Telegraph
Sam Houston
Flag of the Republic of Texas
David Crockett
The Fight at the Alamo
John C. Frémont
Frémont’s Expedition Crossing the Rocky Mountains
Kit Carson
Sutter’s Mill
Placer-Mining in the Days of the California Gold Rush
John C. Calhoun
Calhoun’s Office and Library
Henry Clay
The Birthplace of Henry Clay, near Richmond
The Schoolhouse in “the Slashes”
Daniel Webster
The Home of Daniel Webster, Marshfield, Mass.
Henry Clay Addressing the United States Senate in 1850
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s Birthplace
Lincoln Studying by Firelight
Lincoln Splitting Rails
Lincoln as a Boatman
Lincoln Visiting Wounded Soldiers
Robert E. Lee
Lee’s Home at Arlington, Virginia
Jefferson Davis
Thomas J. Jackson
A Confederate Flag
J.E.B. Stuart
Confederate Soldiers
Union Soldiers
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant’s Birthplace, Point Pleasant, Ohio
General and Mrs. Grant with Their Son at City Point, Virginia
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Philip H. Sheridan
Sheridan Rallying His Troops
The McLean House Where Lee Surrendered
General Lee on His Horse, Traveller
Cotton-Field in Blossom
A Wheat-Field
Grain-Elevators at Buffalo
Cattle on the Western Plains
Iron Smelters
Iron Ore Ready for Shipment
