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
TARLETON, GENERAL, massacres militia of the Waxhaws, 283.
TARTARY, Columbus’s search for, 9, 16.
TERRESTRIAL PARADISE, Columbus’s search for, 5, 15, 21.
TERRIBLE CORNET OF HORSE, soubriquet of William Pitt, 97.
THULE, visited by Columbus, 8;
supposed to be Iceland, 8.
TIERRA FIRME, old Spanish name for the South American continent, 17.
TISQUANTUM, the Pilgrim’s Indian interpreter, 134, 135, 136.
TOBACCO, discovered by Columbus, 12.
TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE, Liberator of Haiti, 405.
TRINIDAD, named by Columbus, 16.
TRUMBULL, GOVERNOR JONATHAN, sends Putnam to Bunker Hill, 147;
supplies powder for Battle, 209;
nicknamed Brother Jonathan, 210.
TUPAC AMARU, early Peruvian Patriot, 405.
TWIN CITIES, Cristobal and Colon, named after Columbus, 25.
UNION, THE, Hamilton’s faith in, 154;
Andrew Jackson’s toast, 279;
John Marshall and the solidarity of the Union, 425, 431;
the Constitution necessary to protect the Union, 158, 443;
Washington on the Unity of our Government, 448.
URUGUAY, called La Banda Oriental, 405;
Artigas, Liberator of, 405;
Roosevelt visits, 66.
USHEEN, legend of the Atlantic, 6.
VALLEY FORGE, winter of suffering, 210, 211, 418;
Martha Washington nurses the sick, 212;
Washington prays God for aid, 213;
Nathanael Greene procures army supplies, 215;
Steuben trains the Army, 222;
John Marshall keeps up the soldiers’ courage, 436.
VENEZUELA, discovered by Columbus, 17;
Miranda’s attempt to liberate, 335, 339;
Declaration of Independence, 342;
National Flag, 339, 342;
Constitution
of Bolivar, 384.
_See also_ BOLIVAR; MIRANDA.
VERMONT, aids blockaded Boston, 79.
VILLAMIL, JOSEPH, helps to liberate Guayaquil, 271.
VINLAND THE GOOD, Columbus may have heard of, 9.
VIRGINIA, aids blockaded Boston, 79;
summons first representative assembly in America, 308.
_See also_ HENRY; JEFFERSON; MADISON; MARSHALL; PENDLETON; WASHINGTON.
VIRGINIA RANGERS, cover Braddock’s Retreat, 428.
WARREN, DR. JOSEPH, at Bunker Hill, 87.
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