. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . THE GREEN EMBRASUREDFORTRESS THAT FRONTS THE SEA. train, backed all the way downto Newport News, and thensteamed on to Richmond,eighty miles away. The roadlay through a region rich inthe associations of two stirringepochs in American history —the Revolution and the CivilWar. Over that way, a few miles to the east, Uncle Tom said, lies York-town, where the Revolution came to an end, while here to the right, at ourvery next stopping-place, was sounded one of the first bugle-blasts of theRevoluti
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . THE GREEN EMBRASUREDFORTRESS THAT FRONTS THE SEA. train, backed all the way downto Newport News, and thensteamed on to Richmond,eighty miles away. The roadlay through a region rich inthe associations of two stirringepochs in American history —the Revolution and the CivilWar. Over that way, a few miles to the east, Uncle Tom said, lies York-town, where the Revolution came to an end, while here to the right, at ourvery next stopping-place, was sounded one of the first bugle-blasts of theRevolution. What place is that? queried Bert was already studying his time-table. Williamsburg,he announced. Let s see; is nt there an old, oldcollege there ? Yes, Uncle Tom replied; William and Mary College, the oldestcollege in the United States, excepting Harvard. Washington was its chan-cellor; Presidents Jefferson, Monroe, and Tyler, Chief-Justice Marshall, andGeneral Winfield Scott were once students there. In that old town werethe headquarters of Nathaniel Bacon, earliest of American
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