. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. e Middle States came Peter Stuyvesant, thatstrongest and most stubborn of old Dutch New Yorkers; andWilliam Penn, the rich young Quakejf who knew
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. e Middle States came Peter Stuyvesant, thatstrongest and most stubborn of old Dutch New Yorkers; andWilliam Penn, the rich young Quakejf who knew equally howto pick his way amid courts and amid savages. The elder and the younger Winthrop were the early lead-ers of Massachusetts, the father being a wealthy English Puri-tan who led a small army of his dependents to the foundingof Boston. So strong did this Puritan colony become thatwhen civil war broke out in England between the Puritansand the king, many Massachusetts men hurried back to Eng-land to aid their co-religionists. Foremost of the eager fight-ers who thus returned was Sir Harry Vane. But the Puri-tan cause failed in England; and the kings party, once morein power, sent men of another stamp across the Atlantic, royalgovernors appointed for the deliberate purpose of subduingthe colonies and taking away their liberty. Most prominentof these governors was Sir Edmund Andros, whose portraitforms so sharp a contrast to the The Younger Win-thropThe Elder WinthropWilliam Penn Sir Edmond Andros JohnSmith Lord Baltimore Governor OglethorpePeter StuyvesantSir Harry Vane The United States—Indian Massacres ^549 Deerfield in Massachusetts was sacked and burned early in 1704, the red-men stealing over the winter wastes on snow-shoes, which enabled them to walkundiscovered at night up the drifted snow-banks and over the palisading whichwas meant to protect the town. More than a hundred of the inhabitants werecarried off as prisoners; but, contrary to the usual cust
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