The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . long and weary years of war. He took part in the localVirginia resolutions, and on the meeting of the FirstCongress in Philadelphia, went up to that honored bodywith Patrick Henry and Edmond Pendleton. He was alsoa member of the Second Continental Congress which metat Philadelphia in May, 1775, its members gathering to thedeliberations with throbbing hearts, the musketry of Lex-ington ringing in their ears. The overtures of war by
The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . long and weary years of war. He took part in the localVirginia resolutions, and on the meeting of the FirstCongress in Philadelphia, went up to that honored bodywith Patrick Henry and Edmond Pendleton. He was alsoa member of the Second Continental Congress which metat Philadelphia in May, 1775, its members gathering to thedeliberations with throbbing hearts, the musketry of Lex-ington ringing in their ears. The overtures of war by the British troops in Massa-chusetts had gathered a little provincial army about Boston;a national organization was a measure no longer of choice,but of necessity. A commander-in-chief was to be ap-pointed, and though the selection was not altogether freefrom local jealousies, the superior merit of Washington wasseconded by the superior patriotism of the Congress, and onthe 15th of June he was unanimously elected by ballot tothe high position. His modesty in accepting the office was as noticeableas his fitness for it. He was not the man to flinch from any 48. 9S?
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