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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SEMINOLE AND MEXICAN WARS. 229 tion, and provisions for a year, but the Indians did not want to changetheir home. Osceola was then chief, and a long, fierce war began. It
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OSCEOLA, CHIEF OF THE SEMINOLES. was almost impossible to hunt the Indians from the swamps and thedense forests, bnt it was finally done and a very decisive battle was 230 SEMINOLE AND MEXICAN WARS. (1838) fought at Lake Okeechobee. A treaty was made in 1839, answeredHadley. During the winter of 1834-35, the weather was so cold that theChesapeake bay was frozen over, it was eight degrees below zero atCharleston, and the mercury froze at Lebanon. It was the coldest winterever known in America, said Josie. And in this terrible weather there was a $17,000,000 fire in New York, and the greater part ofthe business portion was de-stroyed, added Ray. In 1838 Canada tried togain her independence as theUnited States did, but failed.Parties from the Stateswere very eager to help,but the President and Stateofficers maintained the law ofneutrality, exclaimed Ruth. What did they do that for ?demanded Bennie. Whydidnt they help Canada?professor morse. There are national laws which we cannot stop to

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