ILLUSTRATIONS.
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“—On our chieftain speeded, rallied quick the fleeing forces” Frontispiece
Hernando de Soto 1
Jamestown as it is 12
Eleazer Williams 16
“Huge he was, and brave and brawny, but I met the slayer tawny” 19
“For while they the house were holding, balls the wives were quickly moulding” 21
Clark’s House, Lexington 31
Samuel Adams 31
The Lexington Massacre 32
John Hancock 32
Fight at the Bridge 33
Battle-ground at Concord 35
Meriam’s Corner, on the Lexington Road 36
Halt of Troops near Elisha Jones’s House 36
The Provincials on Punkatasset 37
Monument at Concord 39
William Moultrie 40
Plan of Fort on Sullivan’s Island 40
South Carolina Flag 40
Sullivan’s Island and the British Fleet at the Time of the Attack 40
Sir Henry Clinton 42
Sir Peter Parker 46
Moultrie Monument, with Jasper’s Statue 49
Charleston in 1780 51
Trenton—1777 53
Rahl’s Head-quarters 54
Battle of Trenton 55
Subsequent Operations 61
Friends’ Meeting-house 62
View of the Battle-ground near Princeton 62
Battle of Princeton 66
The Battle-ground of Oriskany 70
Peter Gansevoort 70
General Herkimer’s Residence 71
The Site of Old Fort Schuyler 72
General Herkimer directing the Battle 78
Marinus Willett 81
Map of Bennington Heights 83
Van Schaik’s Mill 84
John Stark 84
The Battle-ground of Bennington 89
Lieutenant-general Burgoyne 90
Horatio Gates 90
Benedict Arnold 91
“Five times we captured their cannon, and five times they took them again” 92
“Firing one Parthian volley” 94
George Rogers Clarke 95
Plan of the Battle 100
Lafayette in 1777 101
General Wayne 101
Henry Knox 102
Freehold Meeting-house 102
Battle-ground at Monmouth 103
Washington rebuking Lee 105
Molly Pitcher 107
Banastre Tarleton 112
Daniel Morgan 112
William Washington 114
John E. Howard 116
Joseph Brant 118
Distant View of Cherry Valley 119
Colonel Isaac Shelby 129
King’s Mountain Battle-ground 130
Andrew Jackson 144
Villeré’s Mansion 145
“The Hermitage,” Jackson’s Residence, in 1861 146
Jackson’s Tomb 147
Plain of Chalmette.—Battle-ground 148
John Coffee 148
Statue of Jackson in Front of the Cathedral 149
The Last Charge 158
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