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Discovering Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa by Jeannette Buckley
epub |eng | | Author:Jeannette Buckley

finishing the mission As the mission's neophyte population grew to its peak (832 inhabitants) in the early 1800s, so did the mission complex. Construction ended in 1819, at which time ...
( Category: State & Local October 4,2022 )
Discovering Mission San Juan Bautista by Madeline Stevens
epub |eng | | Author:Madeline Stevens

October 1800 was a particularly bad month at Mission San Juan Bautista. Those living at the mission reported six earthquakes a day for nineteen days. All of the mission buildings ...
( Category: State & Local October 4,2022 )
The Battles of Lexington and Concord by Stephen Whitwell
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Whitwell

This early 20th-century illustration shows British troops retreating from Concord. The colonists shot at the British as they retreated. Many colonists had fought in the French and Indian War, during ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary October 4,2022 )
Ellie's Long Walk by Pam Flowers
epub |eng | | Author:Pam Flowers

“Gotcha!” Ellie’s silliness always made Pam laugh. She liked having a fun partner on the Trail. In the mountains of Virginia, January brought snow. Ellie was excited to see big ...
( Category: State & Local October 4,2022 )
Discovering Mission San Luis Rey de Francia by Jeannette Buckley
epub |eng | | Author:Jeannette Buckley

In the 1800s, Fray Peyri allowed smaller sister missions called asistencias, as well as villages called rancherias, to be built on grassland a few miles away. Built by and for ...
( Category: State & Local October 3,2022 )
Great Women of the American Revolution by Brianna Hall
epub |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Brianna Hall [Brianna Hall]

More Patriots died on prison ships than were killed in battles. When a Patriot officer approached Burgin about planning a jailbreak, she agreed to help. Each time Burgin boarded the ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary September 30,2022 )
At the Battle of Bull Run by Eric Braun
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Eric Braun [Braun, Eric]

THE END To follow another path, press here. To read the conclusion, press here. “Sir, let us join Jackson,” you say. “We can win this battle.” The captain yells in ...
( Category: Civil War Era September 30,2022 )
At the Battle of the Ironclads by Matt Doeden
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Matt Doeden [Doeden, Matt]

To dive into the water and abandon your ship, press here. To try to escape with your cargo, press here. Your instincts scream at you to turn around. You learned ...
( Category: Civil War Era September 30,2022 )
How Does Voting Work? by Kathryn Wesgate
epub |eng | 2020-08-19 | Author:Kathryn Wesgate

MULTIPLE METHODS States choose how to record people’s votes. Some states have voters fill in their answers on pieces of paper, called ballots. These may look sort of like a ...
( Category: 2000s September 29,2022 )
The Terrible, Awful Civil War by Kay Melchisedech Olson
epub |eng | 2019-06-28 | Author:Kay Melchisedech Olson [Olson, Kay Melchisedech]

Piles of Waste Picture yourself living in a camp with hundreds of men and piles of waste all around. Pretty stinky, huh? During the Civil War, human and animal waste ...
( Category: Civil War Era September 29,2022 )
Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Britannica Educational Publishing
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Britannica Educational Publishing

Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Northern pride was wounded by Early’s threat, and General Ulysses S. Grant dispatched General Philip Sheridan to ...
( Category: Civil War Era September 28,2022 )
A Kids' Guide to the American Revolution by Kathleen Krull
epub |eng | 2018-03-30 | Author:Kathleen Krull

The Declaration was approved in Congress on July 4, 1776. WISE WORDS “In this city, our founders put forth a Declaration of Independence, but also made a historic declaration of ...
( Category: Civil War Era September 28,2022 )
Star-Spangled by Tim Grove
epub |eng | 2020-05-26 | Author:Tim Grove [Grove, Tim]

British Major General Robert Ross was a forty-seven-year-old, blue-eyed Irishman. He had grown up in the same region of Northern Ireland that Sam Smith’s family had emigrated from. He had ...
( Category: 1800s September 20,2022 )
The World Turned Upside Down by Tim Grove
epub |eng | 2022-04-12 | Author:Tim Grove [Grove, Tim]

Rochambeau and Washington were waiting, once again, to hear from a French military official. This time the official was Admiral de Grasse, the naval commander in charge of the large ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary September 19,2022 )
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR by Susan Wise Bauer
epub |eng | 2013-05-12 | Author:Susan Wise Bauer [Bauer, Susan Wise]

With the rebellion over, the British tried to improve India for their subjects. They built railroads and roads, laid telegraph lines, and improved India’s harbors so that more ships could ...
( Category: 1800s August 28,2022 )

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