Young folks' history of the United States . THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 201 phia, and that he procured a small boat, and sailedLip and down the Schuylkill River, with the colorsunfurled, to show the assembled people what theirnational ensign was to be. This is the flag that now The oldwaves over every United States vessel, or camp, or ^^building, except that, for every State added to theUnion, a new star has been placed on the Hag; whilethe thirteen stripes still remind us of the old thir-teen colonies that won their independence. CHAPTER XXI. THE REMAINDER OF THE WAR. Capture of T TP to
Young folks' history of the United States . THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 201 phia, and that he procured a small boat, and sailedLip and down the Schuylkill River, with the colorsunfurled, to show the assembled people what theirnational ensign was to be. This is the flag that now The oldwaves over every United States vessel, or camp, or ^^building, except that, for every State added to theUnion, a new star has been placed on the Hag; whilethe thirteen stripes still remind us of the old thir-teen colonies that won their independence. CHAPTER XXI. THE REMAINDER OF THE WAR. Capture of T TP to the time of the Declaration of Independence,byThl^^ ^ almost the whole fighting had been about Boston,British. although the British had made an unsuccessful attackon Charleston, , and the Americans had tried,with equal ill-success, to overrun Canada, and takeQuebec. But Washington foresaw that an attemptwould be soon made by the royal generals to occupyNew York : so he sent General Lee from Cambridgeto defend it; and he himself soon fo
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