Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . he became sensible of her situation. Atlength they gathered closely around her, and at that awful moment thespectators heard her, while she grasped her criicifix, calling ferventlyon her Redeemer for intercession and pardon. Amongst the friends and relatives of the Maid of Orleans, sorrowfor her untimely loss seems to have been swallowed up by grief andshame at the stigma affixed upon her memory, and b)- indignation ather unmerited condemnation and inhuman execution. Her brothersand her widowed mother loudU appealed against the decis
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . he became sensible of her situation. Atlength they gathered closely around her, and at that awful moment thespectators heard her, while she grasped her criicifix, calling ferventlyon her Redeemer for intercession and pardon. Amongst the friends and relatives of the Maid of Orleans, sorrowfor her untimely loss seems to have been swallowed up by grief andshame at the stigma affixed upon her memory, and b)- indignation ather unmerited condemnation and inhuman execution. Her brothersand her widowed mother loudU appealed against the decision of theUniversity of Paris, and never relaxed their efforts at Rome until thecase was brought before the Ecclesiastical Court for years after her execution, Calixtus re-examined the chargeson which she had been condemned, when the judgment was reversed,and the injustice of the sentence under which she had suffered openlydeclared. Joan was born in 1411, and was crowned a martyr May 31st, 1431. :^i^l):&,M^W;;v!; lilf¥Jlili. CHAPTER XVIII. ^ GEORGE WASHINGTON. HERO OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION—DUTIFULAND AFFECTIONATE SON—CALM AND RESOLUTEIN DANGER — COMMANDER OF THE AMERICANARMY—LEADER IN THE GREAT STRUGGLE FORFREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE—FIRST PRESIDENT—FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY. George Washington was born in Virginia, at the family homesteadon Bridges Creek, on the 2 2d of February in the year 1732. He was thesecond son of Augustine and Mary Washington. George was the eldestson of his mother, but there had been two children by his fathers firstwife : Laurence and Agustine. Many of Washingtons biographershave written scores of pages to show that he was descended from a lineof noble knights and gallant cavaliers. But the truth is that very littlehas been certainly proved, except that his family had been of some con-sequence in England, and tbat two brothers, John and Andreas Wash-ington, bought land and settled in Westmoreland Coiinty, Virginia, i
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