Project Gutenberg 2011-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 112 Gordy, Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) 1854 1929 Gordy, Wilbur Fisk American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America -- Hernando De Soto and the discovery of the Mississippi -- Sir Walter Raleigh and the first English attempts to colonize America -- John Smith and the settlement of Jamestown -- Nathaniel Bacon and the uprising of the people in Virginia in 1676 -- Miles Standish and the Pilgrims -- Roger Williams and the Puritans -- William Penn and the settlement of Pennsylvania -- Cavelier de La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley -- George Washington, the boy surveyor and young soldier -- James Wolfe, the hero of Quebec -- Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act -- Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party -- Paul Revere and the battle of Concord and Lexington -- Benjamin Franklin and aid from France -- George Washington, the Virginia planter and the Revolutionary soldier -- Nathaniel Greene, the hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" -- Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer -- Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase -- Robert Fulton and the steamboat -- Andrew Jackson, the upholder of the Union -- Daniel Webster, the defender and expounder of the Constitution -- Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the electric telegraph -- Abraham Lincoln, the liberator of the slaves -- Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War -- Some leaders and heroes in the war with Spain. Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35742/35742-h/images/cover-front.jpg file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/35742/35742-h/images/cover-front.jpg en United States -- Biography E151 Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - American 559114 559117 2024-08-15T07:02:47.481441 2023-09-15T12:29:36.880735 text/html text/html 540730 2011-04-01T19:35:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 11855626 2011-04-23T15:31:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 12088384 2024-08-15T07:03:00.975336 application/epub+zip 12097129 2024-08-15T07:02:50.706402 application/epub+zip 395551 2024-08-15T07:02:48.983411 application/epub+zip 12237671 2024-08-15T07:03:07.171325 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 12198553 2024-08-15T07:02:58.619382 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 515810 2022-09-16T10:55:21.713039 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 442598 442509 2024-08-15T07:02:45.638436 2023-09-15T12:29:35.250691 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 442285 2011-04-01T19:34:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 168442 2011-04-01T19:36:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 442278 2011-04-01T19:34:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 168399 2011-04-01T19:36:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20807 2024-08-15T07:03:07.333316 application/rdf+xml 15990 2024-08-15T07:02:49.125411 image/jpeg 2343 2024-08-15T07:02:49.054394 image/jpeg 12057180 2024-08-15T07:02:47.914421 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog