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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.

History

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

Gone glimmering away from this green-backed epoch are the sable groups
that danced on the greensward, away from the tangling military lines
apparently just as happy as if the American Wittenagemote, led on by
Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Sherman, and Livingston, had not solemnly
declared, and thereto pledged all that they had, “that all men are
created free and equal.”

[Illustration:

  ENGLISH POOR RELATIONS EATING COLONISTS OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME.
  (p. 276)
]




                              CHAPTER III.

    SECOND TURN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WHEEL; ITS ECCENTRIC BUT ONWARD
                               MOVEMENTS.
                               1776–1780.

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 repealed.—Battle of Princeton.—The Germans obtain Cider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,—what was laid there.—The Benefits of the Wyoming
  Massacre.—Guerilla War in 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 Pawnbroker.—Paul Jones and his
  Whip.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Opening the text

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.

History

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

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

Gone glimmering away from this green-backed epoch are the sable groups
that danced on the greensward, away from the tangling military lines
apparently just as happy as if the American Wittenagemote, led on by
Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Sherman, and Livingston, had not solemnly
declared, and thereto pledged all that they had, “that all men are
created free and equal.”

[Illustration:

  ENGLISH POOR RELATIONS EATING COLONISTS OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME.
  (p. 276)
]




                              CHAPTER III.

    SECOND TURN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WHEEL; ITS ECCENTRIC BUT ONWARD
                               MOVEMENTS.
                               1776–1780.

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,—what was laid there.—The Benefits of the Wyoming
  Massacre.—Guerilla War in 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 Pawnbroker.—Paul Jones and his
  Whip.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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

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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