True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 27
MEETING OP WASHINGTON AND ROCHAMBEAU 28 GEORGE WASHINGTON the tree under which Washington sat on horseback, when hetook command of the American army. It is an old, old tree now, but everybody loves to look atj—^^^ it and to think of the splendid-look- ing soldier, in his uniform of buff andblue,… … WASHINGTONS INAUGURATION. the brave men who were to be his soldiers, and by whose helphe hoped to make his native land a free and independentnation. GEORGE WASHINGTON 89 So, at his camp at Cambridge, he drilled his army of farm-ers and fishermen, and when he was ready he drove the Brit-ish away…
