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
CIPANGO (JAPAN), Columbus searches for, 16.
CITY OF BOLIVAR, Angostura renamed, 384.
CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE, soubriquet of Philadelphia, 36, 81.
CITY OF THE KINGS, soubriquet of Lima, Peru, 244.
COCHRANE, LORD THOMAS, admiral of Chilean Navy, 255, 256.
COLOMBIA, REPUBLIC OF, established, 390.
_See also_ GREAT COLOMBIA.
COLON, CITY OF, named for Columbus, 25.
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER, some important dates in his life, 2;
boyhood, 3;
theories about shape of earth, 8;
search for Kublai Khan, 10, 13, 21, 24;
the mutiny, 2, 12;
discovers West Indies, 12;
discovers corn and tobacco, 12;
names Indians, 13;
returns to Spain, 13;
honours conferred on him by sovereigns of Spain, 15;
discovers Trinidad, 16;
discovers South America, 17;
discovers Gulf of Pearls, 18;
is deposed from Governorship, 19, 20;
starts on Fourth Voyage, 21;
wrecked off Jamaica, 24;
dream of Panama, 24;
sails up the Chagres River, 25;
dies in Spain, 26.
COLUMBUS, DIEGO, at La Rabida, 12.
COLUMBUS, FERDINAND, page to Queen Isabella, 21;
sails with his father, 22;
encourages the sailors, 22;
returns to Spain, 24, 26.
CONNECTICUT, aids blockaded Boston, 79;
banner at Bunker Hill, 147;
supplies Washington with powder, 209;
independent Constitution, 209.
CONNECTICUT RIVER, meaning of name, 209.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, verses by Francis Hopkinson, 153;
defended by Hamilton, 158;
the foundations of, 98, 442;
necessity for
expounding, 444;
expounded by John Marshall, 444;
tribute from Gladstone, 442;
from Bolivar, Webster, and Lincoln, 448, 449.
_See also_ FEDERAL CONVENTION; HAMILTON; REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
CONSTITUTIONS OF OTHER COUNTRIES, Brazil, 120;
Venezuela, 384;
Chile, 404;
England, 99, 269, 442.
CONSTITUTIONS, definitions of, 442.
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, FIRST, meeting of, 80;
Petitions of, 81.
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, SECOND, appoints George Washington
Commander-in-Chief, 83, 84, 85.
CONWAY CABAL, 418.
CORN, INDIAN, discovery of, 12.
CORNHILL, Pilgrims find corn at, 135.
CORNWALLIS, GENERAL, rescues de Kalb, 415.
COTTON-BALES, at New Orleans, 299.
COUNCIL ELM, of William Penn, 38.
CRADLE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY, Faneuil Hall, 104.
CREEK INDIAN WAR, Massacre at Fort Mims, 289.
CRESAP, COLONEL, nicknamed Big Spoon, 192.
CRISTOBAL, CITY OF, named after Columbus, 25.
CROCKETT, DAVY, joins Andrew Jackson, 290.
CUBA, Liberation of, 59, 61.
CUSTIS, GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKE, 200, 203.
CUSTIS, JACK, 198.
CUSTIS, NELLIE, 200.
CUSTIS, PATSY, 198.
DEANE, SILAS, attends First Continental Congress, 80.
DE KALB, BARON, accompanies Lafayette to America, 414;
chosen by Lafayette to be lieutenant, 419;
mortally wounded at Camden, 415.
DE LAS CASAS, _see_ LAS CASAS.
DE MIRANDA, _see_ MIRANDA.
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