. 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. 1X18. The United States—The Jersey Campaign ^57^ crick the Great of Prussia, himself the foremost general of the century, afterstudying the ten d
. 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. 1X18. The United States—The Jersey Campaign ^57^ crick the Great of Prussia, himself the foremost general of the century, afterstudying the ten days campaign that Washington now carried through, de-clared that it had never been surpassed in military brilliancy. The British, unable to cross the Delaware, established themselves in com-fortable quarters in New Jersey. One of the Hessian generals, suggestingtheir insecurity, was told by the over-confident English, that New Jersey mightnow be kept in order by a corporals guard. Washington did not think great exertions his officers had raised some fifteen hundred volunteers in Penn-sylvania; and with the pick of these and his own ragged followers, twenty-fivehundred in all, Washington, on Christmas night, 1776, made his famous passageof the Delaware. Crossing through the floating ice, he suddenly assailed a forceof Hessians at Trenton. They were utterly unprepared, deep in a Christmascarousal, and made scarcely any defence. Nearly a thous
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