The Path of Progress: A Pageant Drama of the Nation (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Watson, Annah Robinson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333384297 ISBN 13 : 9781333384296

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Englishmen when the great Barons forced King John, in 1215, to meet them in the little valley of Runnymede and sign Magna Charta. It shows the same aspiration towards freedom when four hundred years later the Pilgrims left the home of their birth and sought another where religious freedom might be found. It tells that after a brief stay in Holland, they crossed the ocean in the Mayflower, reached the New World and cast anchor off Plymouth Rock, 1620. Here they lighted the Torch of Liberty, and although in three months more than half their number had perished from hardships and disease, those who remained endured as heroes and left us the inheritors of their splendid achievements. Other colonists came, conditions improved, notwithstanding the hostility of some of the I ndians, settlements multiplied and prospered. Then troubles with the mother country developed, the Revolution resulted, the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Colonies were victorious, the young nation called COLUMBIA was born. The thirteen colonies became states twenty-one more had been added to the Union, when, in 1861, secession of eleven states was followed by war. Peace was restored in 1865, and the North and South were reunited. Here the curtain falls over half a century, but suddenly it is lifted to show the effect of the stupendous conflict of 1914 the World War. It shows the wounds of civil strife healed, America entering gloriously into the struggle and then it records the decisive blow struck by American troops in 1918. Many great personages appear throughout the pageant, but at its climax, 1920, with her soldiers, her beautiful women, the little chilidren she has sheltered, Columbia is surrounded by the symbolized forces of her splendid present and future Religion, Progress, Victory, Peace, Prosperity and many others, and calls the suffering peoples of the world to come to
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333384297
• ISBN 13: 9781333384296
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
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