epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Ray Anthony Shepard

Before this, on August 7, nineteen days into the siege, the soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth had once again stood in front of the paymaster’s wagon. For the second time, regardless ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Rachel Kempster Barry

CHAPTER 8 The Culper Spy Ring SETAUKET Long Island was home to an amazing group of spies during the American Revolution. They used their wits, invisible ink, disguises, and even ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Diane Telgen

THWARTING AN ASSASSIN Henry Clay Frick was not a man to fold easily. He had avoided responsibility for the Johnstown disaster and then survived a personal tragedy. In 1891, his ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-23 | Author:Damian Harvey

The Nina came to the rescue but Columbus had to leave some of his crew behind, as there was no room. During his journey back to Spain, he thought he ...

epub |eng | 1998-01-15 | Author:James Lincoln Collier

The Susan Constant, a replica of one of the ships that carried settlers to Jamestown at the beginning. This replica can be seen today at Jamestown. In the years before ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Krystyna Poray Goddu [Goddu, Krystyna Poray]

Printed in 1775 this map of the British battle plan was drawn by an officer at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Below the map appears a letter written by British ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Pamela Dell [Dell, Pamela]

Apache scouts also lost their freedom. In what became known as “the Parting,” they were relocated to New Mexico to live with the Mescalero Apache on their reservation. Those remaining ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Rebecca Langston-George [Langston-George, Rebecca]

With nowhere else to go, migrants camped on roadsides in California and other states. Although only about 20 percent of the Dust Bowl migrants came from Oklahoma, all the migrants ...

epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:James Lincoln Collier

As late as the 1920s, when this picture was taken, peasants in Italy were still tilling the soil using primitive wooden plows at the cost of much sweat, as their ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:John Micklos Jr. [Micklos, John]

Bloody Battles The Civil War cost more lives than any other war in U.S. history. About 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Many died in battle. About two out ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr

References A Proposed Monument To Molly Pitcher. April 9, 1913. Albany Evening Journal. 5. American Heroines by Louise M. Comstock. Molly Pitcher. February 23, 1933. The Portville Review. Portville, Cattaraugus ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Shelli Timmons

But the mail carrier doesn’t bother anyone in the bar, unlike the hotel’s resident spirit, Florence Montague. This ghost inhabits room 320 and is known to yank the covers off ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Stuart Stotts

The Civil War was a very bloody war, and amputations were common. This amputating kit belonged to Dr. Erastus Buck, from Marquette, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Republican Party held its convention ...

epub |eng | 2001-10-15 | Author:Cynthia Furlong Reynolds

P The glorious, spicy scent of our state flower, the peony, fills the springtime air here in Indiana. Victorians called these spring blooms the flower of “bashfulness,” but they aren’t ...