T. D. E.

Newark, N. J., July 30, 1885.

CONTENTS.

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Preface[vii]
De Soto’s Expedition[1]
The Fall of Maubila[2]
Bacon’s Rebellion[12]
The Burning of Jamestown[13]
The Deerfield Massacre[16]
The Sack of Deerfield[17]
The Lewises[24]
The Fight of John Lewis[24]
The First Blood Drawn[31]
The Fight at Lexington[33]
Bombardment of Fort Sullivan[40]
Sullivan’s Island[41]
A Turn of the Tide[53]
The Surprise at Trenton[54]
Following the Operations at Trenton[61]
Assunpink and Princeton[63]
Donald M’Donald[67]
Colonel Harper’s Charge[67]
Oriskany[70]
The Fight at Oriskany[71]
Baum’s Expedition[83]
The Battle of Bennington[85]
The Capture of Burgoyne[90]
Arnold at Stillwater[91]
Siege of Fort Henry[95]
Betty Zane[96]
Operations at Monmouth[100]
The Battle of Monmouth[103]
John Berry, the Loyalist[108]
Jack, the Regular[108]
Tarleton’s Defeat[112]
The Battle of the Cowpens[113]
The Affair of Cherry Valley[118]
Death of Walter Butler[119]
The Fight of the Mountaineers[129]
The Battle of King’s Mountain[131]
Mrs. Merrill’s Defence[139]
The Long-knife Squaw[139]
The Last Battle of the War[144]
The Battle of New Orleans[149]
El Molino del Rey[156]
Battle of the King’s Mill[156]
A Tale of the War[160]
The Fencing-master[160]
An Ambuscade[164]
The Charge by the Ford[164]
A New Folk-song[166]
Flag of the Rainbow[166]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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“—On our chieftain speeded, rallied quick the fleeing forces”[Frontispiece]
Hernando de Soto[1]
Jamestown as it is[12]
Eleazer Williams[16]
“Huge he was, and brave and brawny, but I met the slayer tawny”[19]
“For while they the house were holding, balls the wives were quickly moulding”[21]
Clark’s House, Lexington[31]
Samuel Adams[31]
The Lexington Massacre[32]
John Hancock[32]
Fight at the Bridge[33]
Battle-ground at Concord[35]
Meriam’s Corner, on the Lexington Road[36]
Halt of Troops near Elisha Jones’s House[36]
The Provincials on Punkatasset[37]
Monument at Concord[39]
William Moultrie[40]
Plan of Fort on Sullivan’s Island[40]
South Carolina Flag[40]
Sullivan’s Island and the British Fleet at the Time of the Attack[40]
Sir Henry Clinton[42]
Sir Peter Parker[46]
Moultrie Monument, with Jasper’s Statue[49]
Charleston in 1780[51]
Trenton—1777[53]
Rahl’s Head-quarters[54]
Battle of Trenton[55]
Subsequent Operations[61]
Friends’ Meeting-house[62]
View of the Battle-ground near Princeton[62]
Battle of Princeton[66]
The Battle-ground of Oriskany[70]
Peter Gansevoort[70]
General Herkimer’s Residence[71]
The Site of Old Fort Schuyler[72]
General Herkimer directing the Battle[78]
Marinus Willett[81]
Map of Bennington Heights[83]
Van Schaik’s Mill[84]
John Stark[84]
The Battle-ground of Bennington[89]
Lieutenant-general Burgoyne[90]
Horatio Gates[90]
Benedict Arnold[91]
“Five times we captured their cannon, and five times they took them again”[92]
“Firing one Parthian volley”[94]
George Rogers Clarke[95]
Plan of the Battle[100]
Lafayette in 1777[101]
General Wayne[101]
Henry Knox[102]
Freehold Meeting-house[102]
Battle-ground at Monmouth[103]
Washington rebuking Lee[105]
Molly Pitcher[107]
Banastre Tarleton[112]
Daniel Morgan[112]
William Washington[114]
John E. Howard[116]
Joseph Brant[118]
Distant View of Cherry Valley[119]
Colonel Isaac Shelby[129]
King’s Mountain Battle-ground[130]
Andrew Jackson[144]
Villeré’s Mansion[145]
“The Hermitage,” Jackson’s Residence, in 1861[146]
Jackson’s Tomb[147]
Plain of Chalmette.—Battle-ground[148]
John Coffee[148]
Statue of Jackson in Front of the Cathedral[149]
The Last Charge[158]

THE BOY’S
BOOK OF BATTLE LYRICS.