The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art
Volume 5 U.S. History – American Revolution, France Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS THE UNITED ST ATES I. WAR IN. THE WEST AND ON THE OCEAN How DAXIEL BooxE SAVED BOONESBOROUGH
Charles C. B. S eymour
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George Rogers Clark A CAMPAIGN THROUGH THE \\'ATER • How THE \VoMEN BROUGHT \VATER TO BRYAN'S STATION
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From "Self-made l\len."
From "Border Fights and Fighters."
Cyrus Townsend Brady
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Sarah Ome Jewett
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Joel Tyler Headley
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THE FIRST SALUTE TO THE FLAG
From "The Tory Lover."
JCHN PAUL JONES IN THE REVOLUTION
From"\Vashington and his Generals."
II. THE COLONIES WIN THEIR F REEDOM CONGRESS A N D VALLEY FORGE
. Jolm Fiske
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Elizabeth F. Ellet
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From "The American Revolution."
THE MESSAGE OF LYDIA DARRAH
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From "The \Vernen of the American Revolution."
MOLLIE PITCHER • THE CAPTURE OF MAJOR ANDRE
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From "Benedict Arnold."
A VISIT TO GENERAL MARION
From "The Boys of '76."
\VHEN CoRNW ALLIS SURRENDERED
From "The Heritage."
GEORGE III.
CoLONIES
ACKNOWLEDGES
THE
Kate Brownlee Sherwood Jared Sparks
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Charles Carleton Coffin
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Burton Egbert Stevenson
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INDEPENDENCE
From "Men and Times of the Revolution."
\VHEN \VASHINGTON RESIGNED HIS COlBIISSION
From "Our First Century." III. LIFE
OF THE
EJkanah Watson R.
ill.
Devens
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IN RE VOLUTIONARY DAYS
THE MESCHIANZA AT PHILADELPHIA
John F. Watson 101
From"Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania." A NEW E NGLAND THANKSGIVING DINNER IN 1779
JulianaS mith
From "Colonial Holidays," compiled by Walter Tittle
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CONTENTS .Charles D. Platt
A CALL ON LADY WASHINGTON IN I78o
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From "Ballads of New Jersey in the Revolution." How PEOPLE TRAVELED IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
John Bach McMaster
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Joh1i G. Whittier
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From "A History of the People of the United States."
ABRAHAM DAVENPORT
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FRANCE I. IN THE CHRISTMAS OF 496
THE DARK AGES •
From "Ierne of Armorica."
THE FAMOUS VICTORY OF CHARLES MARTEL.
From "Heroes of History and Legend."
J. C. Ba tema n
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A. W. Grube
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Unknown 146
THE LAMENT OF CHARLEMAGNE FOR ROLAND.
From "The Song of Roland."
CHARLEMAGNE, EMPEROR OF THE \VEST
From "Heroes of History and Legend."
ROLLO THE VIKING
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From "E uropean Hero Stories."
iv. Grube
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Eva Marclz Tappan
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A.
II. STORIES OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR THE BATTLE OF CREC'Y How QUEEN PHILIPPA SAVED THE BURGHERS
From "Froissart's Chronicles."
Sir John Froissart 165 Sir Jolm Froissart 171
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THE Cm,HNG OF THE MAID OF ORI.EANS
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Mary Rogers Bangs
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From"The Maid of Orleans." THE DEATH OF JEANNE D'ARC
From"Jeanne d'Arc."
III. FRANCE UNDER THE VALOIS KINGS XI SAID HIS PRAYERS From "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
\VHERE LOUIS
ANNE OF BRITTANY AND HER COURT
. Victor Hugo
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Catherine Cha rlotte
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From "The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century." THE D EATH OF THE CHEVALIER BAYARD
From the Old Chronicles Benvenuto Cellini
J AND THE GOLDSMITH From "Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini."
KING FRANCIS
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CONTENTS IV. THE HOUSE OF BOURBON THE BATTLE OF IvRY
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Thomas Babi11gton Macaulay • Edward B11lwer-Lytton
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CARDINAL RICHELIEU AND HIS ENElllY
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Alexandre Dumas From "Twenty Years After." THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV Julia Pardoe From "Louis XIV and the Court of France."
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From "Richelieu."
IN THE DAYS OF THE FRONDE
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V. ON THE EVE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
ilfarie Antoinette J.fadame Campan THE WARDROBE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE • Madame Campan From "Memoirs of the P rivate Life of Marie Antoinette." THE FALL OF THE BASTILLE Alexandre D11111as From "Ange Pitou." THE FLIGHT OF Loms XVI Charles Duke Yonge From "Life of Marie Antoinette." THE l\!ARSEILLAISE • . Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle WHEN l\fARIE ANTOINETTE ENTERED PARIS How THE QUEEN WAS SERVED •
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277 279 281 284 292 302
VI. THE REIGN OF TERROR
XVI Edmo11d Birl From "The Diary of a Citizen of Paris during 'The Terror.'" IN THE REVOLT OF THE VENDEE • Victor Httgo From "Ninety-three." AT THE GUILLOTINE Charles Dickens From "A Talc of Two Cities.'' THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE Thomas Car!yle From "The French Revolution." THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS
307 317 329 336
VII. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Isaac McLellan • Victor Hugo THE ComNG OF LOUIS XVIII "Louisa Miildbaclz" (Clara Mundt) From "Queen Hortense.'' THE RETURN OF NAPOLEON FROM ELBA A11011ymo11s From" Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte," by Bourricnne. \VHEN NAPOLEON RETURNED FROM ELBA Napoleon Bonaparte THE BATTLE OF EYLAU
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THE RETREAT FROll: Moscow
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351 354 359 364 370
CONTENTS . Victor Hugo 372
WATERLOO
From "Les Miserables."
Isaac M cLellan 394
THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON
VIII. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR
Emile Zola 399
THE WHITE FLAG OF SEDAN
From "The Downfall."
ONE DAY UNDER THE COMMUNE
From "Paris under the Commune."
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John Leighton 416
UNITED STATES I \VAR IN THE \VEST AND ONTHE OCEAN
HISTORICAL NOTE DURIKG the Revolution the border warfare in the West was constant and pitiless, and from Kentucky to the Great Lakes the outlying settlements were devastated by the Tories and their Indian allies. In 1778 the border villages of �ew York and Pennsylvania were so cruelly harried by Chief Brant and Colonel Butler that in the following year General Sullivan led an army into the country of the Six Nations, the most powerful of the Indian tribes, and avenged the massacres so sternly that this great tribe never recovered its former position. In 1778 the British planned to unite the Indian tribes and destroy the little settlements in what ,vas then the "Far West," or what is now Indiana and Illinois. This might well have come to pass if, through the efforts of a young Virgin ian surveyor named George Rogers Clark, they had not been driven back and Vincennes and other places captured. This one man saved the vast e:-..-panse of country between the Ohio and the Great Lakes, and as far west as the Mississippi. At the time of the Revolution the colonies had, of course, no navy of their own, and in consequence the coast was practically at the mercy of the English. Congress felt this handicap early in the war, but little ,vas done except the equipment of privateers and cruisers for the destruction of British commerce. During the first half of the war more than six hundred British vessels were taken by these privateers, but during the same period nine hundred American vessels were captured by British cruisers, and the fisheries and coasting trade of Ne·w England were almost destroyed. There was one captain· who, more than all others, terror ized British shipping and spread the fame of American sea men throughout Europe - John Paul Jones, a Scotch sailor who had settled in Virginia shortly before the outbreak of hostilities. As commander of the Ranger in 1778 and the Bon Homme Richard in 1779, he wrought havoc along the British coast, burned the shipping in British ports, and finally captured the man-of-war Serapis after one of the most desperate sea-fights in history.
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