True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 28
The day that they de-cided to do this is now thegreatest day in all America.You remember it everyyear, and celebrate it withfire-crackers and fire-worksand flags, and no school.It is the fourth of July. Well, the King of England was very angry at this. Hesent more ships and soldiers over the sea to… … GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE FIRST PRESIDENT. 30 GEORGE WASHINGTON fought the British, and never gave up, nor ever let himself orhis soldiers grow afraid, even when he was beaten, was Gen-eral George Washington. If the British drove him away from one place, he marchedto another, and he fought and…
