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Book SynopsisWilbur Fisk Gordy writes about the heroes and leaders of America that shaped this country prior to 1923. This book is a must for all Americans and those who are living in other parts of world but are keen to know about the real heroes and leaders who own the credit of building the United States from its beginning.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; List of Maps; Preface; Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of America; Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi; Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America; John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown; Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676; Miles Standish and the Pilgrims; Roger Williams and the Puritans; William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania; Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley; George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier; James Wolfe, the Hero of Quebec; Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act; Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party; Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington; Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France; George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier; Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox; Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer; Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase; Robert Fulton and the Steamboat; Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union; Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution; Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph; Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves; Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War; Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain; Index.
