Good stories for great birthdays: arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own readingOlcott, Frances Jenkins
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Good stories for great birthdays: arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading
Olcott, Frances Jenkins
Birthdays; Children's literature; South America -- History -- Anecdotes; United States -- History -- Anecdotes
CHILE’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE (SAN MARTIN AND O’HIGGINS)
The Son of the Barefoot Boy, p. 395
The Single Star Flag, p. 397
The Hero of Rancagua, p. 398
The Hannibal of the Andes, p. 249
Not for Himself, p. 254
Cochrane, El Diablo, p. 255
PERU’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE (SAN MARTIN)
Our Brothers, Ye Shall be Free! p. 256
The Fall of the City of the Kings, p. 257
San Martin the Conqueror, p. 261
Lima’s Greatest Day, p. 265
Hail! Neighbour Republics! p. 266
America for the Americans, p. 268
GUAYAQUIL (NOW IN ECUADOR); ITS STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
What One American Did, p. 271
The Amazing Meeting, p. 272
END OF THE STRUGGLE OF PERU AND CHILE FOR INDEPENDENCE
(BOLIVAR AND O’HIGGINS)
What Happened Afterward, p. 274
The Mystery Solved, p. 276
The Patriot Ruler, p. 400
First Soldier, First Citizen, p. 402
Chile as She is, p. 403
The Break, p. 389
Bolivar, the Man, p. 390
OTHER SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS
The Break, p. 389
One of Twenty, p. 405
SPAIN’S LAST STAND, CUBA
The Ever Faithful Island, p. 59
The Colonel of the Rough Riders, p. 61
ARBITRATION AND PEACE
The Better Way, p. 406
PORTUGUESE AMERICA
BRAZIL (DON PEDRO)
The Brazils Magnificent, p. 111
The Empire of the Southern Cross, p. 112
Making the Little Emperor, p. 113
The Patriot Emperor, p. 115
The United States of Brazil, p. 120
SUBJECT INDEX
ADAMS, ABIGAIL, marries John Adams, 75;
sees Battle of Bunker Hill, 86;
teaches John Quincy, Patriotism, 87.
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, 77.
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, 2d, 77.
ADAMS, HENRY, 77.
ADAMS, JOHN, some important dates in his life, 74;
Son of Liberty, 75;
signs Declaration, 75, 76;
exults because of Boston Tea Party, 78;
attends First Continental Congress, 81;
nominates Washington to be Commander-in-Chief, 83;
his design for the Stars and Stripes, 88;
his grandson sails with Miranda, 90, 335;
his Fourth of July Toast, 92;
dies on anniversary of signing of Declaration, 92.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, son of John Adams, 77;
boyhood, 85;
watches Battle of Bunker Hill, 85, 86;
his mother’s post-boy, 87;
becomes Sixth President of the United States, 88.
ADAMS, SAMUEL, John Adams’s cousin, 76;
aids blockaded Boston, 78;
at First Continental Congress, 81;
at Lexington, 82;
at the Second Continental Congress, 83.
ALAMO, THE, 291, 295.
ALFRED, THE, Paul Jones’s ship, 360, 363.
AMAZON RIVER, 66, 67, 69.
“AMERICA FOR THE AMERICANS” motto of the Monroe Doctrine, p. 270.
AMERICAN INDIANS, named by Columbus, 13;
cruel treatment of, in North America, 41, 132;
in Spanish America, 26, 328, 330.
ANDES, description of, 245, 252, 386;
crossed by San Martin, 251;
crossed by Bolivar, 385;
_El Cristo_ of the Andes, 406.
ANGOSTURA, CITY OF, renamed after Bolivar, 384.
ANGOSTURA, CONSTITUTION OF, composed by Bolivar, 384.
APOSTLE OF SOUL LIBERTY, soubriquet of Roger Williams, 348.
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