Identifier: storyofournation00stra (find matches)
Title: The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ... together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton, Ella (Hines), Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tone with womans scorn did ring,She said unto King Georges brave and stalwart men : Go, tell the story of your capture to your king ! He cannot crush our rights beneath his.royal hand With dastards such as you ! And ere this war be doneWell teach old Englands boasting redcoat band, Were not a race of slaves ! From mother, sire to son,Theres not a coward breathes in all our native land ! Thus Mother Bathericks fearless deed was done ;Long will the tale be told in famed historic page,How, in this first great victory by freemen won, A dame with furrowed brow and tresses white with age,Captured the Grenadiers at famous Lexington. 172 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Good for her! theres not a coward breathes in all our nativeland! cried Jake. Isnt that as true now as it was then, Mamma Nelson? I think it is, my boy, answered Mamma Nelson heartily. Whatabout Concord ? Concord was thoroughly alarmed before the British reached there,but they were not opposed as they marched in and held the town. The
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THE FIGHT AT CONCORD BRIDGE. most of the stores had been removed but they began to plunder. At theNorth bridge, where the British were tearing up the planks, twoAmericans were killed and several wounded. About this time the red-coats thought it might be safer to return to Boston, the country wasawakened, and men were pouring in from all sides, eager to try a shotat the hated regulars. Stone walls, trees and houses along the line oftheir retreat sheltered enemies, who kept up an irregular, but fatal fire,answered Jake, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 173 The British commander hurried his troops through Lexington,and just beyond the town he met Lord Percy, advancing to his aid. Hismen, their tongues hanging from their mouths like that of a dog after ahard chase, dropped to the ground. But the position could not be held,and, after firing Lexington, the retreat was resumed. The Americansfollowed them closely, and they revenged themselves by murderinginnocent people along the road, and burning th

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