. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. er to reach England. Then it took longer still for theobstinate King George and his obstinate supporters to recog-nize the magnitude of the disas
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. er to reach England. Then it took longer still for theobstinate King George and his obstinate supporters to recog-nize the magnitude of the disaster and realize how nearly im-possible it would be for them to raise fresh armies and trans-port these to America. Thus it was almost a year after thedisaster before the king had yielded so far as to accept theidea of American independence and appoint commissioners ofpeace to arrange the details. Hence it was not until the year 1783 that the British troopsbegan evacuating, one after another, the American ports theyhad so long held in bondage. Last of all the cities to be thussurrendered was New York, where Evacuation Day (No-vember 26. 1783) is still held in joyous memory. Washingtonand all his army were in waiting outside New York, and asthe last British troops withdrew, the Americans marched over seven years the city had been the headquarters ofEnglish arms; now its citizens welcomed mth eager joy theentrance of the heroic IX-2G
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