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... Pequots were a powerful tribe . They lived in Connecticut . Their chief sachem was called Sas- sacus . He was a great warrior . 4. The Pequots had two forts near New London and Groton . Soon after the English settled Con- necticut , the ...
... Pequots were a powerful tribe . They lived in Connecticut . Their chief sachem was called Sas- sacus . He was a great warrior . 4. The Pequots had two forts near New London and Groton . Soon after the English settled Con- necticut , the ...
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... Pequots early one morning . The Indians had set no watch , and the barking of a dog gave the first alarm of the enemy's approach . 7. In confusion , amid cries of " Owanux ! Owanux ! " ( the English ! the English ! ) they flew with bow ...
... Pequots early one morning . The Indians had set no watch , and the barking of a dog gave the first alarm of the enemy's approach . 7. In confusion , amid cries of " Owanux ! Owanux ! " ( the English ! the English ! ) they flew with bow ...
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... Pequot tribe ? Where did they live ? Who was their chief sachem ? What is said of him ? 4. What two forts had the Pequots ? How did they treat the English ? 5. How many men did the English raise for the war ? By what towns were they ...
... Pequot tribe ? Where did they live ? Who was their chief sachem ? What is said of him ? 4. What two forts had the Pequots ? How did they treat the English ? 5. How many men did the English raise for the war ? By what towns were they ...
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... Pequot war ? 12. What were surprised ? Who were killed ? What did the inhab- itants at Brookfield do ? How long did the Indians surround this house ? In what way did they attempt to set fire to the house ? 13. At another time , What ...
... Pequot war ? 12. What were surprised ? Who were killed ? What did the inhab- itants at Brookfield do ? How long did the Indians surround this house ? In what way did they attempt to set fire to the house ? 13. At another time , What ...
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... Pequots , dreading the power of the English , tried to form a league with the other tribes , to drive the white man ... Pequot messengers were there . They were fresh from the murder of cne colonist - - would they spare him who had come ...
... Pequots , dreading the power of the English , tried to form a league with the other tribes , to drive the white man ... Pequot messengers were there . They were fresh from the murder of cne colonist - - would they spare him who had come ...
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Page 26 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 26 - This was their welcome home! There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band; — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Page 108 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through, the night that our flag was still there.
Page 108 - And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
Page 109 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Page 108 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 108 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On that shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep. Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes. What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 109 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation ! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto:
Page 59 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour.
Page 92 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.