llingness or inability to fight at
all. Intelligent foresight in preparation and known capacity to stand
well in battle are the surest safeguards against war. America will cease
to be a great nation whenever her young men cease to possess energy,
daring, and endurance, as well as the wish and the power to fight the
nation's foes. No citizen of a free state should wrong any man; but it
is not enough merely to refrain from infringing on the rights of others;
he must also be able and willing to stand up for his own rights and
those of his country against all comers, and he must be ready at any
time to do his full share in resisting either malice domestic or foreign
levy.

HENRY CABOT LODGE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

WASHINGTON, April 19, 1895.

CONTENTS

GEORGE WASHINGTON--H. C. Lodge.

DANIEL BOONE AND THE FOUNDING OF KENTUCKY--Theodore Roosevelt.

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND THE CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST--Theodore
Roosevelt.

THE BATTLE OF TRENTON--H. C. Lodge.

BENNINGTON--H. C. Lodge.

KING'S MOUNTAIN--Theodore Roosevelt.

THE STORMING OF STONY POINT--Theodore Roosevelt.

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS--H. C. Lodge.

THE BURNING OF THE "PHILADELPHIA"--H. C. Lodge.

THE CRUISE OF THE "WASP"--Theodore Roosevelt.

THE "GENERAL ARMSTRONG" PRIVATEER--Theodore Roosevelt.

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS--Theodore Roosevelt.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND THE RIGHT OF PETITION--H. C. Lodge.

FRANCIS PARKMAN--H. C. Lodge.

"REMEMBER THE ALAMO"--Theodore Roosevelt.

HAMPTON ROADS--Theodore Roosevelt.

THE FLAG-BEARER--Theodore Roosevelt.

THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACK--Theodore Roosevelt.

THE CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG--Theodore Roosevelt.

GENERAL GRANT AND THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN--H. C. Lodge.

ROBERT GOULD SHAW--H. C. Lodge.

CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL--H. C. Lodge.

SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK--H. C. Lodge.

LIEUTENANT CUSHING AND THE RAM "ALBEMARLE"--Theodore Roosevelt.

FARRAGUT AT MOBILE BAY--Theodore Roosevelt.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN--H. C. Lodge.

"Hor. I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
Ham. He was a man, take him for all in all
I shall not look upon his like again."--Hamlet

HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY

WASHINGTON

The brilliant historian of the English people [*] has written of
Washington, that "no nobler figure ever stood in the fore-front of a
nation's life." In any book which undertakes to tell, no matter