You are here

قراءة كتاب Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2)

تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"

‏اللغة: English
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2)

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2)

تقييمك:
0
No votes yet
المؤلف:
دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
الصفحة رقم: 1


Historical Tales

The Romance of Reality

By

CHARLES MORRIS

Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from the
Dramatists," etc.


IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES

Volume II



American

2

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON


Copyright, 1904, by J. B. Lippincott Company.

Copyright, 1908, by J. B. Lippincott Company.


CONTENTS.


  PAGE
Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth 7
De Soto and the Father of Waters 13
The Lost Colony of Roanoke 23
The Thrilling Adventure of Captain John Smith 29
The Indian Massacre in Virginia 40
The Great Rebellion in the Old Dominion 49
Chevalier La Salle the Explorer of the Mississippi 62
The French of Louisiana and the Natchez Indians 76
The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe 88
How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain 95
A Boy's Working Holiday in the Wildwood 104
Patrick Henry, the Herald of the Revolution 113
Governor Tryon and the Carolina Regulators 124
Lord Dunmore and the Gunpowder 135
The Fatal Expedition of Colonel Rogers 145
How Colonel Clark won the Northwest 153
King's Mountain and the Patriots of Tennessee 166
General Greene's Famous Retreat 171
Eli Whitney, the Inventor of the Cotton-Gin 185
How Old Hickory fought the Creeks 193
The Pirates of Barataria Bay 206
The Heroes of the Alamo 217
How Houston won Freedom for Texas 225
Captain Robert E. Lee and the Lava-Beds 231
A Christmas Day on the Plantation 241
Captain Gordon and the Raccoon Roughs 252
Stuart's Famous Chambersburg Raid

Pages