Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . x-ing-ton, one Sun-day morn-ing, be-tween the Brit-ish andA-mer-i-can troops ; and now, all o-ver the land, went up thecry, To arms! To arms! This is how the great War of In-de-pend-ence be-gan;and you know the name of the man who was at once putat the head of theA-mer-i-can ar-my—George Wash-ing-ton,of course! Now he is not an Eng-lish-man fight-ing for hisking, but an A-mer-i-can fight-ing to free his own land. Along, hard fight it was, too, but not once did Wash-ing-tonor his brave men lose heart. He drove the Brit-ish o
Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . x-ing-ton, one Sun-day morn-ing, be-tween the Brit-ish andA-mer-i-can troops ; and now, all o-ver the land, went up thecry, To arms! To arms! This is how the great War of In-de-pend-ence be-gan;and you know the name of the man who was at once putat the head of theA-mer-i-can ar-my—George Wash-ing-ton,of course! Now he is not an Eng-lish-man fight-ing for hisking, but an A-mer-i-can fight-ing to free his own land. Along, hard fight it was, too, but not once did Wash-ing-tonor his brave men lose heart. He drove the Brit-ish out ofBos-ton, and then, for fear they would go to New York, hesent men there; but the Brit-ish ships went to Can-a-da in-stead, and made that land theirs. It was just at this time that Eich-ard Hen-ry Lee, theboy-friend of Wash-ing-ton, made a move in Con-gress thatour land should say to the whole world that it would be freefrom Brit-ish rule ; and so the Dec-lar-a-tion of In-de-pend-ence was drawn up and sent out to the world on July 4,1776. GEOEGE WASHINGTON. 11. War now be-gan in dead-ly earn-est; and, at the greatbat-tie of Long Isl-and, our men met with great loss of life,and had to flee from the foe. Soon af-ter this bad news theBrit-ish took Phil-a-del-phi-a, andnow Wash-ing-ton was sad at heart;on Christ-mas day of 1776, though,our troops won in the great fightthat took place at Tren-ton, andthere was joy in the whole land;good news came with the NewYear, too, for Wash-ing-ton wonma-ny fights; and at last, in Oc-to-ber, 1777, the Brit-ish troops incharge of Gen-er-al Bur-goyne gaveup their arms to Gen-er-al Gates, lieotenant-general win-ter of 1777 was a bad one ^^—^-eiish print, Wash-ing-ton and his men ; at no time in the war didthey suf-f er so much; the time was spent at Val-ley Forge,and the men lived in log huts which they had first built,in long straight lines, like cit-y streets; twelve men livedin each hut, and there was a fire-place at
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