x, 390 p. illus., facsim., map (on lining papers) ports. 25 cm.
Series
[His George Washington, v. 1]
Notes
"Source references": p. 361-377.
Summary
This is the first of 4 volumes by this author on the life of Washington. It deals with his life from birth until the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
Country life in America as lived by ten presidents of the United States. John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge
A detailed account of the engagements around Whitemarsh, PA, December 5-8 1777, which ended with Washington's forces retiring to Valley Forge. "After the reverses at Brandywine, Paoli and Germantown, it was significant that the skirmishes around Whitemarsh constituted an important moral victory for the American cause, for had General Howe succeeded in destroying the Continental Army by his well planned surprise attack, there might very well have been no Valley Forge!" [from the foreward]
111 pages including color frontispiece illustrations (some color) 24 x 20 cm
Summary
"The author, in selecting the background for her story, turns to the famous Ephrata Cloister in the Pennsylvania Dutch country of southeastern Pennsylvania. This cloister contains serious-minded, religious men and women who feed the soldiers and bind their wounds. They like young Stephen so much that they are especially nice to him. In return, and at considerable risk of which he thinks nothing, he eagerly volunteers to thwart a plot against the life of General Washington who is planning to visit the wounded soldiers." [dust jacket]
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session
Postage stamps of the United States : an illustrated description of all United States postage and special service stamps issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847 to December 31, 1961
Extracts from the constitutions of the Supreme Council of the ancient accepted Scottish rite: For the Northern masonic jurisdiction of the United States, as revised in 1885, orient, Boston, Mass
