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. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Destroying Stores Frontispiece Page Major Storer Receives The Recruits 14 Phil Guarding Dick 21 "twice Did Colonel Vaughan Call Him Into The Cabin" 24 Dick's Visit 31 "not A Man Could He Sefn" 39 "You Bring Brave News" 43 Colonel Vaughan Hit.. 49 "Keep The Flames Down" 51 "it Was You ...
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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. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Destroying Stores Frontispiece Page Major Storer Receives The Recruits 14 Phil Guarding Dick 21 "twice Did Colonel Vaughan Call Him Into The Cabin" 24 Dick's Visit 31 "not A Man Could He Sefn" 39 "You Bring Brave News" 43 Colonel Vaughan Hit.. 49 "Keep The Flames Down" 51 "it Was You Who Tried To Shoot Colonel Vaughan." 59 "So It Was You" 63 "he'll Be Hanged" 69 Phil Is Wounded 73 "dick Was Bent, Like An Old Man" 83 "the Sentinel Stood Irrksolutely" 87 "the Town Was Ablaze" 91 THE BOYS OF 1745 AT THE CAPTURE OF LOUISBOURG. CHAPTER I. VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. ROM the middle of February until the 24th of March (on the day when the fleet of ninety transports and thirteen vessels of war sailed from Nantasket Roads, in Boston Harbour, bound on an expedition of war to Nova Scotia), the town of Portsmouth, in the colony of New Hampshire, was in a ferment of excitement. That the colonies were sufficiently strong to assist the mother country in war surprised the thoughtless to the verge of bewilderment, and many of the better-informed citizens gravely questioned whether it was not a foolhardy piece of bravado to make an attack upon a place so strongly fortified as was the French port of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. Groups of people might have been seen conversing on the streets at all hours of the day, and even late in the evening, without fear of reprimand from those in authority, and it was an unusual occurrence when men or boys passed each other without at least referring to the daring campaign about to be begun by the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Therefore it was that when Philip Towle and Richard Sanbourne met in front of Master Leavitt's store on a certain morning in March, instead of discussing the...
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Very Good. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1895. First edition, 1895. Historical fiction for juveniles, illustrated with full page engravings plus vignettes. Pictorial light blue cloth with a patriotic design in red, dark blue and dark green. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
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