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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

Name: The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
Author: Sherwood, John D.

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

English Hawks gather around New York.—Washington watches
          them.—About an Esquire.—The Way the Germans took
          Brooklyn the first Time.—How they returned, not to their
          Mutton, but to Kalbfleisch.—Difficulty of reaching New
          York from Brooklyn in 1776.—Washington takes a Trip to
          Harlem.—The British also.—Red Eyes and Disfigured Faces
          the Consequence.—Lord Howe attempts to get around the
          American Squire.—The slight Unpleasantness at White
          Plains.—The different Uses of the Croton Water in 1776
          and now.—The Amount of Whiskey it took in 1869 to
          qualify the Water in New York.—Washington ventures into
          New Jersey.—Set-to at Fort Lee.—Washington across
          Rivers.—Philadelphia covered.—Homesickness of
          Agricultural Lads.—What befell Lee at a
          Tavern.—Washington crosses the Delaware and drops
          Christmas Presents into German Stockings.—The Effects of
          Yankee Doodle on Lafayette, De Kalb, Kosciusko, Pulaski,
          and others.—Friends of America in England, Fox, Hume,
          etc.—Friends of England in America.—The Statue and
          Statutes of George III. repealed.—Battle of
          Princeton.—The Germans obtain Cider and Sausages at
          Danbury.—Colonel Meigs tickles the Feet of Long Island,
          and makes Congress laugh.—Colonel Prescott is obliged to
          rise very early one Morning at Newport.—Silas Deane and
          B. Franklin in France.—What followed.—Burgoyne tries to
          find a back-stair Passage to New York.—Strong Gates in
          his Way near Saratoga.—Still-Water runs
          deep.—Brandy-Wine an unpalatable Drink.—French Treaty
          with America in 1778.—The Wheel moves in Water and turns
          out French Names.—Crossing New Jersey, Lord Howe
          collides with Washington at Monmouth.—Count d’Estaing is
          prevented by an Injunction off the New York Bar from
          entering New York.—Coquetting, but no Engagement, near
          Newport.—Buzzard’s Bay and its Roosts.—Little Egg Harbor
          and its Nests, and what was laid there.—The Benefits of
          the Wyoming Massacre.—Guerilla War at the
          South.—Savannah trounced.—Horse Neck and Putnam’s
          Home-Stretch down it.—Count d’Estaing’s Yachting.—Spain
          hankers for Gibraltar.—England as a Pawn-Broker.—Paul
          Jones and his Whip.


 IV.    THE LAST TURN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WHEEL; ACCELERATIONS;
          SLOWINGS; THE GRIST. 1780–1783                             296

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

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