. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times. hianze the of tiis city and vessels, were parts ofthe revelries that occupied almist a week and cost great sums of 1,rilliance of the-^e great festivities was expected to eclipse the cele-bration of an event of vital imoortance to England, France and America—an event only celebrated by a military parade, shouts of joy and pray-ers of gratitude. After the battle of Bran.!y-winc, on their r:;!reat tiirough to Germanic) .vn and Valey Forge, the army of the Urited .-Vme
. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times. hianze the of tiis city and vessels, were parts ofthe revelries that occupied almist a week and cost great sums of 1,rilliance of the-^e great festivities was expected to eclipse the cele-bration of an event of vital imoortance to England, France and America—an event only celebrated by a military parade, shouts of joy and pray-ers of gratitude. After the battle of Bran.!y-winc, on their r:;!reat tiirough to Germanic) .vn and Valey Forge, the army of the Urited .-VmericanStates decked themselves with leaves and tlowcrs to Iiide their rags. Maywe not suppo-e that that same half-naked armv, in the fol!.,)wing spriig,clothed with the ever-green laurels of a leatless lorest. iJaurcistypical of the wreaths bestowed by loving hearts upon the memories ofthem and of their French allies for almost a century anil a quarter. M. C. Mukray Hyde,-Member New York City Chapter Dajghters of the Revolution. I04 THE SniUT OF 76. , 1897 J. WliriSTER KLLSWOKTH. rir. Ellsworths Lecture, Prom [-exinfctoii toYorktown. A RECENT meetinij ofthe Empire State So-ciety of tlie Sons oftlie American Revolution atthe Hotel Normandie in thiscity was entertained with anillustrated lecture on the P\£V-olutionary War by Mr. Will-iam Wehiter Ellsworth. Itwas entitled Erom Eexincf-toi\ to Yorktown. The pub-lisher of this paper, Mr. Cor-nish, was present and wasdeeply impressed by it. Tiieselection and excellence ofthe pictures and the lucid stylein which the lecturer talkedled him to say that helearned more of Americanhistory during that hour anda half than in all his previousreading. Really it is a re-sume of the incidents andbattles of the war for inde-pendence, bringing forwardsome new matter, but pre-senting the whole subjectin a way that showed thework of the various colonies,and it gives the bearer a clearand condensed view of t
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