Peter Zenger, German, defended by Andrew Hamilton, Scot, registered great triumph for freedom of press when he won his fight against Governor Cosby of New York.
National Defense
Minutemen roused by Paul Revere, Huguenot ... drill-master of Continental armies, who helped to plan West Point, was Frederick von Steuben, German ... $600,000 advanced to Congress and subsidies negotiated from France and the Netherlands by Haym Solomon, Polish Jew ... father of American cavalry was General Casimir Pulaski, Pole.
First to lose life in Revolutionary War was Chrispus Attucks, Negro ... first commodore of Navy was John Barry, Irish ... naval hero John Paul Jones, Scot ... $5,000,000 contributed toward War of 1812 by Stephen Girard, French ... famous privateer, who abolished corporal punishment in the Navy, was Uriah Levy, Jew ... British defeated on Lake Erie by Captain Perry, Scotch-Irish.
Labor
First president of American Federation of Labor, who improved living standards of workers was Samuel Gompers, English Jew ... leader of C. I. O., John L. Lewis, Welsh ... organizer of coal miners, John Mitchell, Welsh ... president of A. F. of L., William Green, English-Welsh ... leader of Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian Jew.
Religious Work
Participating in Washington’s Inaugural was Rabbi Seixas, Portuguese Jew ... one of our greatest clergymen, Jonathan Edwards, Welsh ... leader in welfare and religious work, Huie Kin, Chinese ... first Protestant missionary to West Indies was George Lisle, former Negro slave ... professor of theology at Hartford Seminary, N. Y. Ananigian, Armenian ... authority on early church history is Prof. La Plana, Albanian.