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قراءة كتاب Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59
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Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59
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BEN COMEE
A TALE OF ROGERS'S RANGERS
1758-59
BEN COMEE
A TALE OF ROGERS'S RANGERS
1758-59
BY
M. J. CANAVAN
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
1922
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1899,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped October, 1899. Reprinted November, 1899;
February, 1908; October, 1910; September, 1913; November, 1916.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| Ben is born in Lexington 1737—Schools and Schoolfellows | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| They trap Muskrats—Bishop Hancock and his Grandson John | 14 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| In which are Details of a Great Fox Hunt | 30 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Trading in those Days—Ben is apprenticed—The Enlisting Sergeant—Court Day at Concord | 51 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Pigeon Tuesday and its Exploits | 64 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| A Pauper's Funeral—Ben's Friend the Minister, and Ben's Victory in Wrestling | 74 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Tales from the Frontier—Mr. Tythingman and his Services | 88 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Ben and Amos join Rogers's Rangers and march to the West | 100 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| In which the Rangers engage with the French and Indians | 110 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Lord Howe and his Death—The Loyalty of John Stark | 120 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| Fort Ticonderoga and the Assault | 131 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| The Fight at Fort Anne, and the Escape of Amos | 142 |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| Ben Comee Heap Big Paleface—Trapping Bob-cats in Primeval Woods | 163 |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| A Scouting Expedition in the Dead of Winter | 187 |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| Camp Discipline—Amherst's Angels—A Brush with the French, and the Loss of Captain Jacob | 197 |
| CHAPTER XVI | |
| The Rangers to the Front—Captain Stark's Tale of Capture —To attack the St. Francis Indians | 208 |