_A Tale of the War_ 160 THE FENCING-MASTER 160 _An Ambuscade_ 164 THE CHARGE BY THE FORD 164 _A New Folk-song_ 166 FLAG OF THE RAINBOW 166 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE “—ON OUR CHIEFTAIN SPEEDED, RALLIED QUICK } THE FLEEING FORCES” } _Frontispiece_ HERNANDO DE SOTO 1 JAMESTOWN AS IT IS 12 ELEAZER WILLIAMS 16 “HUGE HE WAS, AND BRAVE AND BRAWNY, BUT I MET THE SLAYER TAWNY” 19 “FOR WHILE THEY THE HOUSE WERE HOLDING, BALLS THE WIVES WERE QUICKLY MOULDING” 21 CLARK’S HOUSE, LEXINGTON 31 SAMUEL ADAMS 31 THE LEXINGTON MASSACRE 32 JOHN HANCOCK 32 FIGHT AT THE BRIDGE 33 BATTLE-GROUND AT CONCORD 35 MERIAM’S CORNER, ON THE LEXINGTON ROAD 36 HALT OF TROOPS NEAR ELISHA JONES’S HOUSE 36 THE PROVINCIALS ON PUNKATASSET 37 MONUMENT AT CONCORD 39 WILLIAM MOULTRIE 40 PLAN OF FORT ON SULLIVAN’S ISLAND 40 SOUTH CAROLINA FLAG 40 SULLIVAN’S ISLAND AND THE BRITISH FLEET AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACK 40 SIR HENRY CLINTON 42 SIR PETER PARKER 46 MOULTRIE MONUMENT, WITH JASPER’S STATUE 49 CHARLESTON IN 1780 51 TRENTON—1777 53 RAHL’S HEAD-QUARTERS 54 BATTLE OF TRENTON 55 SUBSEQUENT OPERATIONS 61 FRIENDS’ MEETING-HOUSE 62 VIEW OF THE BATTLE-GROUND NEAR PRINCETON 62 BATTLE OF PRINCETON 66 THE BATTLE-GROUND OF ORISKANY 70