Good stories for great birthdays, arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (1922)
Olcott, Frances Jenkins · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 409
on Washingtons Birthday, 1778, thatPaul Jones wrote to our Government describingthis great event: — I am happy in having it in my power to con-gratulate you, he said, on my having seen theAmerican Flag, for the first time, recognized in thefullest and completest manner by the Flag of France. I was… … PAUL JONES HOISTING THE STARS AND STRIPES THE FIRST SALUTE 363 same salute which he was authorized by his Court toreturn to an Admiral of Holland, or of any other Re-public; which was four guns less than the salute given. I hesitated at this; for I had demanded gun forgun. - Therefore, I anchored…
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