. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ing to theworthless Charles Stuart, known as Charles the Second,baleigh «nd eu^e™. ancj ^\lcn a fugitive in Flanders, the colonys invitation tocome to the Old Dominion and be crowned King of Virginia. Here sailedthe Virginia vessels that were a part of that ill-fated expedition againstCarthagena in South America, led by the English admiral Vernon, whogave his name to the dearly loved Potomac home of Washington — MountVernon. Here sailed George Washington himself on the only foreign tourhe ever


. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ing to theworthless Charles Stuart, known as Charles the Second,baleigh «nd eu^e™. ancj ^\lcn a fugitive in Flanders, the colonys invitation tocome to the Old Dominion and be crowned King of Virginia. Here sailedthe Virginia vessels that were a part of that ill-fated expedition againstCarthagena in South America, led by the English admiral Vernon, whogave his name to the dearly loved Potomac home of Washington — MountVernon. Here sailed George Washington himself on the only foreign tourhe ever attempted, when, as a boy of eighteen, he accompanied his sickbrother Lawrence to Barbadoes. Here, years after, came the ships of theFrenchman De Grasse, sailing to the final victory of the Revolution atYorktown — that way, to the north; and here, eighty years later, Northernand Southern seamen met in fight on that momentous March day in 1862,when a certain little cheese-box on a raft—the plucky Monitor — camesteaming along right where we are now, and, just in the nick of time, put an.


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