""Old Put"" The Patriot
Autor: Ober, Frederick Albion
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Books LLC
ISBN: 9781443203999
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222 Kč
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202 Kč
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Excerpt: THE PATRIOT BY FREDERICK A. OBER AUTHOR OF CRUSOE'S ISLAND, THE STORIED WEST INDIES, PUERTO RICO AND ITS RESOURCES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1904 Copyright, 1904, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Published, September, 1904 ""Old Put"" escaping from the British at Horseneck CONTENTS Birthplace and Youth ""Old Wolf Putnam"" First Taste of War A Partizan Fighter The Adventurous Soldier Fighting on the Frontier Strategy and Woodcraft A Prisoner and in Peril A Campaign in Cuba Tavern-Keeper and Oracle On the Side of His Country At the Battle of Bunker Hill Holding the Enemy at Bay In Command at New York Washington's Chief Reliance Defending the Hudson Highlands Last Years in the Service The Disabled Veteran LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ""Old Put"" escaping from the British at Horseneck The Wolf Den at Pomfret, Connecticut Fort near Havana where the Colonials landed Israel Putnam From a painting by Trumbull. Statue to General Putnam at Brooklyn, Connecticut ""OLD PUT,"" THE PATRIOT CHAPTER I BIRTHPLACE AND YOUTH Return to Table of Contents This is the life story of one who was born on a farm, and died on a farm, yet who achieved a world-wide fame through his military exploits. It has been told many times, it will be told for centuries yet to come; for the world loves a man of high emprise, and such was Israel Putnam, the hero of this story. He was born January 7, 1718, in Danvers, then known as Salem Village, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England. His father's Christian name was Joseph, his mother's Elizabeth, and Israel (as he was called at baptism, after his maternal grandfather, Israel Porter) was the great-grandson of his first American ancestor, John Putnam, who had come from England, where the original name of the family was Puttenham. He had settled at Salem more than eighty years before, and his son, Thomas, built, in 1648, the house in which Israel was born in 1718. On the death of Thomas it had become the property of Joseph, who...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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