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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ANSWERS TO QUERIES 1. At the surrender of Detroit, by General Hull, Aug. 16, 1812. 2. La Fayette, Count Pulaski, Kosciusko, Baron de Kalb, Baron von Steuben, Count Rochambeau, Count de Grasse, Count D'Estaing. 3. An aquiline nose, shaped like a hawk's bill, found to a very great extent among the American Indians. 4. Ponce de Leon, after being deprived of the governorship of Porto Rico, went to the Bahama Islands and to Florida, in search of this marvellous fountain of which he ha'd heard. He and his company started as if on a pleasure trip, and drank of every spring and bathed in every stream, but the fountain was never found and the expedition ended disastrously. 5. The Iroquois Indians of New York, a confederacy of five tribes--the Agmegue (Maquas or Mohawks), Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. 6. Raleigh was one of the first to introduce " drinking tobacco," as smoking was then called, into England. One morning while he was sitting in his study, learning to smoke, a servant entered with a cup of ale; but, on seeing a whiff of smoke issue from Sir Walter's mouth, he dashed the liquor into his face and rushed out, frantically shouting for aid, for his master was burning to ashes. 7. In the battle of Camden,--anight attack; and in the battle of Murfreesboro,--the massing of the strength on the left wing to attack the enemy's right. S. A name given by the Northmen to the Esquimaux, in contempt, meaning "chips, parings," i. e., dwarfs. 9. George III, the " idiot king." 10. He stayed the course of hostilities between the United States and France, during the first two administrations and effected a treaty of peace, in 1800. 11. Hooker's charge up Lookout Mountain, during the battles before Chattanooga, has been so called; but it is said that General Grant de...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217323278
- ISBN 13 9780217323277
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages28
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