The Iron Star — And What It Saw on Its Journey Through the Ages: From Myth to HistoryTrue, John Preston
History
The Iron Star — And What It Saw on Its Journey Through the Ages: From Myth to History
True, John Preston
Iron -- History -- Juvenile fiction
In Holland at that time there was a little company of English men and
women who had come over there because of trouble about religious
matters at home, where they were not allowed peaceably to worship God
in the way they thought was right. They were planning to go to the new
world which had been discovered across the seas, and it seemed to the
impetuous soldier that they would have need of him in such a journey,
so he went with them. They did not sail direct from Holland, but went
over to England again first, and sailed from Plymouth. Do you not know
now the rest of the story without my telling it? Do you not know that
the famous sword of that fiery little soldier, who valiantly stood so
many times between those wanderers and death, is now to be seen among
the most precious relics treasured at the old town of Plymouth,
Massachusetts? And the name of that sword was "Gideon," and the name
of the noble, quick-tempered, warm-hearted little soldier, a name
which will be remembered as long as the United States of America
exist, was Captain Myles Standish.
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