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
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, some important dates in his life, 124;
boyhood, 125;
influence of Bible on, 125;
becomes a Separatist, 126;
flees into Holland, 126;
in Plymouth Colony, 127;
the Rattlesnake Challenge, 136;
his death, and tribute to him by Cotton Mather, 127.
BRAINTREE (Quincy, Mass.), 75, 86, 91.
BRANDAN, ST., legend of, 6.
BRAZIL, Kingdom, 110, 112;
Declaration of Independence, 113;
Empire, 112, 113, 115, 116;
Republic, 119;
United States of Brazil, to-day, 120;
native products, 121;
Roosevelt and the River of Doubt, 66, 69;
Statue of Liberty presented by the People of the United
States to Brazil, 121.
BREWSTER, WILLIAM, Pastor of Plymouth Colony, 126.
BROTHER JONATHAN, soubriquet of Governor Jonathan Trumbull, 210.
BROTHERLY LOVE, CITY OF, soubriquet of Philadelphia, 36.
BUENOS AIRES, Paris of America, 241;
Argentina’s first Colonial Assembly, 243;
celebrates victory of Chacabuco, 254;
San Martin exiles himself from, 276;
visit of Roosevelt, 66.
BUNKER HILL BATTLE, watched by John Quincy Adams, 86;
Putnam at, 147.
BURKE, EDMUND, defender of America, 104.
BURROUGHS, JOHN, with Roosevelt in the Yellowstone, 53.
CAMBRIDGE (MASS.), Washington at, 147.
CAMDEN, EARL OF, defender of America, 104.
CAMDEN, BATTLE OF, de Kalb rescued by Cornwallis, 415.
CANADA, aids blockaded Boston, 80.
CANONICUS, CHIEF, sends Rattlesnake Challenge, 137;
succours Roger Williams, 352.
CAPE COD BAY, the _Mayflower_ anchors in, 129.
CARACAS, Miranda born in, 331;
destroyed by earthquake, 343;
Bolivar born in, 373;
Bolivar interred in, 390.
CARIBBEAN SEA, explored by Columbus, 17, 23.
CARRERAS BROTHERS, at Rancagua, 398.
CARVER, JOHN, leaves Holland for the New World, 126.
CASAS, _see_ LAS CASAS.
CATHAY, Columbus’s search for, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 24.
CHACABUCO, victory of, 253, 254.
CHAGRES RIVER, discovered by Columbus, 25.
CHARLESTOWN (MASS.), burned by the British, 86.
CHATHAM, EARL OF, _see_ PITT, WILLIAM.
CHATHAM (N.Y.), named for William Pitt, 94.
CHESTER (PA.), Lafayette at the bridge of, 417.
CHILE, San Martin’s Army
crosses the Andes, 251;
battles of Chacabuco and Maipu, 253;
honours San Martin, 254;
National Flag, 255, 397;
Independence recognized by the United States, 267;
reconstruction under O’Higgins, 401;
threatened by Holy Alliance, 403;
welcomes Monroe Doctrine, 403;
Independence Day, 404;
native products, 404;
Argentine boundary line settled, 407;
the Republic to-day, 403.
CHRIST JESUS, Columbus’s devotion to, 9, 10;
quoted by Penn, 32;
as Prince of Peace, 34, 406;
Lincoln’s testimony to the Saviour, 184;
Washington’s testimony to His precepts, 232;
The Holy Alliance fails to carry out His precepts, 269.
CHRISTOPHER, ST., legend of, 9.
CINCINNATI, SOCIETY OF, founded, 208;
members welcome Lafayette, 423.
CINCINNATUS OF THE WEST, soubriquet of Washington, 206.
CINCINNATUS THE ROMAN, story of, 207.
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