This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...in which had been buried the British slain, their graves flattened by the British cavalry so that there should no tale be told of decimated ranks. Last, but by no means least, they gathered about the modest terra-cotta monument raised to the memory of Lafayette, so the inscription told them, "by the citizens and school ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...in which had been buried the British slain, their graves flattened by the British cavalry so that there should no tale be told of decimated ranks. Last, but by no means least, they gathered about the modest terra-cotta monument raised to the memory of Lafayette, so the inscription told them, "by the citizens and school-children of Chester County." For, "on the rising ground a short distance south of this spot," so it informed the reader, "Lafayette was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777." MONUMENT TO LAFAYETTE On the battle-f1eld of Brandywine. Erected by the citizens and school-children of Chester county. As they saw at least three such spots, --for over this question a fierce local feud exists, --the travelers were a little confused as to the facts. But, as Marian said, "We know Lafayette was wounded because he said so himself. Here 's what it said on his monument; Uncle Tom copied it down for me: 'The honor to have mingled my blood with that of many other American soldiers on the heights of the Brandywine has been to me a source of pride and delight.'" "That's what he said when he visited here in 1824," Mr. Eli Harvey told them, as they rested a while at his comfortable farm-house on the hill. "I 've heard my grandfather say that while he sat swinging his legs on that there fence--a little shaver, then, he was--he heard Lafayette say he was wounded and carried under a tree over yonder. But, bless you, it's over half a mile from where that West Chester professor put up that there monument." It was too deep a question to solve, so the children gave it up, and soon after were speeding cityward. The next day they went to Germantown and Valley Forge--additional chapters, so Uncle T...
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