"Then springing from his horse, he plunged into the marsh, and with cries for assistance to the English galleys, swam boldly out into the river."

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A NATION'S MANHOOD;

OR, STORIES OF

WASHINGTON

AND THE

AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"SUNLIGHT THROUGH THE MIST," "THE MARTYR
LAND," "TRIUMPHS OF STEAM,"

ETC., ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

200

LONDON:

JOHN F. SHAW AND CO.,

48 PATERNOSTER ROW, & 27 SOUTHAMPTON ROW.

PREFACE.

THE writer of this story has had but one object in view, to tell the tale simply and truthfully, avoiding as much as possible all causes of irritation. She will be well repaid for her trouble, if she has succeeded in drawing closer the ties which should bind together, in the common interests of freedom and civilization, two such great nations as England and America.

The authorities on which she has chiefly relied for the truth of that which she has written are

Bancroft's History of the American Revolution; Jared Sparke's Life of Washington; Washington Irving's Life of Washington; History of the American Revolution-Library of Useful Knowledge; Memoir of Washington, by Guizot, etc., etc., etc.