The Century Book of the American Colonies
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Century Book of the American Colonies: The Story of the Pilgrimage of a Party of Young People to the Sites of the Earliest American Colonies The object of the Society of Colonial Wars commends itself to every American heart. That object is to rescue from undeserved neglect one hundred and fifty years of American history - the one hundred and fifty years which changed the European immigrant into an American, the one hundred and fifty years which changed the little fringe of struggling settlements at Jamestown and New Amsterdam, at Plymouth and Salem and Boston, into the thirteen mighty provinces which were able to cope with all the might of the British Crown. In that stern school of struggle and trial, of victory and defeat, the colonial American was trained up to a nobler standard of manhood than any that modern Europe can boast. It should be remembered that the great men of the Revolutionary period were the babes of colonial hearthstones, were nursed by colonial dames, and learned their lessons of heroism from the lips of colonial warrior sires. We should never forget that American history is not a thing of shreds and patches, but one long, heroic story of struggle and victory, which does not begin at Bunker Hill and Lexington, or even Plymouth Rock, but goes back to the first successful settlements of the white man on the shores of the Chesapeake and the Hudson. The humble little towns along the Atlantic, glorious as they seem to us now, excited but little interest in the contemporaneous historian. But who can view the great republic of to-day without longing to know its history from the beginning? It is to the study of that history that the Society of Colonial Wars bends all its energies, and it is with the hope that the publication of "The Century Book of the American Colonies" will stimulate such study that this introduction is written. It is proper to state that the society has no business relations with the publishers of this book, and no pecuniary interest whatever in the publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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