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ttractive to writers as to readers. They have dwelt upon them lovingly, embellished them with the charms of rhetoric and occasionally with the inventions of fancy, until what began as fact has often entered far into the domains of legend and fiction. It may well be that some of the narratives in the present work have gone through this process. If so, it is simply indicative of the interest they have awakened in generations of readers and writers. But the bulk of them are fact, so far as history in general can be called fact, it having been our design to cull from the annals of the nations some of their more stirring and romantic incidents, and present them as a gallery of pictures that might serve to adorn the entrance to the temple of history, of which this work is offered as in some sense an illuminated ante-chamber. As such, it is hoped that some pilgrims from the world of readers may find it a pleasant halting-place on their way into the far-extending aisles of the great temple beyond. CONTENTS VINELAND AND THE VIKINGS 9 FROBISHER AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 26 CHAMPLAIN AND THE IROQUOIS 34 SIR WILLIAM PHIPS AND THE SILVER-SHIP 53 THE STORY OF THE REGICIDES 69 HOW THE CHARTER WAS SAVED 80 HOW FRANKLIN CAME TO PHILADELPHIA 90 THE PERILS OF THE WILDERNESS 98 SOME ADVENTURES OF MAJOR PUTNAM 111 A GALLANT DEFENCE 128 DANIEL BOONE, THE PIONEER OF KENTUCKY 138 PAUL'S REVERE'S RIDE 157 THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS 172 THE BRITISH AT NEW YORK 180 A QUAKERESS PATRIOT 189 THE SIEGE OF FORT SCHUYLER 195 ON THE TRACK OF A TRAITOR 211 MARION, THE SWAMP-FOX 223 THE FATE OF THE PHILADELPHIA 237 THE VICTIM OF A TRAITOR 249 HOW THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH WAS INVENTED 259 THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC 275 STEALING A LOCOMOTIVE 285 AN ESCAPE FROM LIBBY PRISON
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