A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans by Eggleston Edward 1837-1902

Author:Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company
Published: 1920-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Tell—How Washington's first battle came about.

How Washington was defeated at Fort Necessity.

How General Braddock marched.

About Braddock's defeat.

How Fort Duquesne was taken at last.

The result of the war between the English and French colonies. Also tell—About Captain Jack.

About Washington in battle.

About Washington's marriage.

XX. Washington in the Revolution.

Washington lived for many years quietly at Mount Vernon, and he did not intend to have anything more to do with a soldier's life. He was fond of hunting and fishing. He sometimes helped to haul a seine in the Potomac River. He rode over his large plantation to see that all went well, and he made maps of all his fields, and kept his accounts carefully and neatly, as he had always done. All traveling strangers were sure of welcome at his house, and the poor, when in danger of suffering, were provided with corn from his granary.

But, as time went on, the English Parliament tried to collect a tax from the Americans. The Americans declared that, so long as they elected- no members of Parliament, that body had no right to tax them without their consent. But the men who governed in England did not think that people in the colonies had the same rights as people in England, so they oppressed the Americans in many ways. Without asking consent of the colonies, they put a tax on

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