News Hunting on Three Continents - Couverture souple

Chambers, Chambers

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 131361081X ISBN 13 : 9781313610810

Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

I rish gentleman, possessed of some money and influence at home, voyaged from County Antrim in 1726 to Pennsylvania and located a Crown grant of land in the Cumberland Valley, a wilderness stretching south-west from the Susquehanna to the vast domain of Lord Baltimore. A round this pioneer rallied a sturdy band of colonists, chiefly from the North of I reland and Scotland, who made clearings in the forest primeval and created farms. For two generations, they endured forays from the native savages. Their homes were burned, their men murdered, their women and children carried off. Thrown entirely on their own resources, harassed and harried by the I ndians, they kept steadily to their determination to build up an orderly, civilized community in the wilds. That colony at Falling Spring was a typical nursery of American freedom. By common consent, Benjamin Chambers was captain of the pioneers. He administered justice and arbitrated disputes. He was a prayerful man; but his musket-flints were picked afresh every morning. He preferred peace, but was ever ready for war. He constructed a stone fort, armed it with two four-pounder fieldpieces, and made the walls of the inclosure the ramparts of the settlement not only against the savages, but against the royal troops themselves.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HardPress Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 131361081X
• ISBN 13: 9781313610810
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 450
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