This Country of Ours
By H.E. Marshall (1917)
This Country of Ours by H.E. Marshall (1917). Unabridged Charlotte Mason living book edition for Form II History.
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Chapter 1 - How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands: In days long long ago there dwelt in Greenland a King named Eric the
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In days long long ago there dwelt in Greenland a King named Eric the Red. He was a man mighty in war, and men held him in high honour.
Now one day to the court of Eric there came Bjarni the son of Heriulf. This Bjarni was a far traveler. He had sailed many times upon the seas, and when he came home he had ever some fresh tale of marvel and adventure to tell. But this time he had a tale to tell more marvelous than any before. For he told how far away across the sea of Greenland, where no man had sailed before, he had found a new, strange land.
But when the people asked news of this unknown land Bjarni could tell them little, for he had not set foot upon those far shores. Therefore the people scorned him.
"Truly you have little hardihood," they said, "else you had gone ashore, and seen for yourself, and had given us good account of this land."
But although Bjarni could tell nought of the new strange land, save that he had seen it, the people thought much about it, and there was great talk about voyages and discoveries, and many longed to sail forth and find again the land which Bjarni the Traveler had seen. But more than any other in that kingdom, Leif the son of Eric the Red, longed to find that land. So Leif went to Eric and said:
"Oh my father, I fain would seek the land which Bjarni the Traveler has seen. Give me gold that I may buy his ship and sail away upon the seas to find it."
Then Eric the Red gave his son gold in great plenty. "Go, my son," he said, "buy the ship of Bjarni the Traveler, and sail to the land of which he tells."
Then Leif, quickly taking the gold, went to Bjarni and bought his ship.
Leif was a tall man, of great strength and noble bearing. He was also a man of wisdom, and just in all things, so that men loved and were ready to obey him.
Now therefore many men came to him offering to be his companions in adventure, until soon they were a company of thirty-five men. They were all men tall and of great strength, with fair golden hair and eyes blue as the sea upon which they loved to sail, save only Tyrker the German.
Long time this German had lived with Eric the Red and was much beloved by him. Tyrker also loved Leif dearly, for he had known him since he was a child, and was indeed his foster father. So he was eager to go with Leif upon this adventurous voyage. Tyrker was very little and plain. His forehead was high and his eyes small and restless. He wore shabby clothes, and to the blue-eyed, fair-haired giants of the North he seemed indeed a sorry-looking little fellow. But all that mattered little, for he was a clever craftsman, and Leif and his companions were glad to have him go with them.
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Chapter 1 - How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands: In days long long ago there dwelt in Greenland a King named Eric the
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Chapter 2 - The Sea of Darkness and the Great Faith of Columbus: In those far-off times besides the Vikings of the North other
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Chapter 3 - How Columbus Fared Forth Upon The Sea of Darkness and: Came to Pleasant Lands Beyond
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Chapter 4 - How Columbus Returned Home in Triumph: Christmas Eve came, and the Admiral, being very weary, went below
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Chapter 5 - How America Was Named: "The New World is his monument." And yet the New World does not
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Chapter 6 - How The Flag of England Was Planted on the Shores of: the New World
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Chapter 7 - How The Flag of France Was Planted in Florida: As years went on many voyages of discovery and exploration were
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Chapter 8 - How The French Founded a Colony in Florida: Two years after Ribaut's ill-fated expedition another company of
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Chapter 9 - How the Spaniards Drove the French Out of Florida: Scarcely a week had passed before the new peace and happiness of
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Chapter 10 - How a Frenchman Avenged the Death of His Countrymen: When the news of these terrible massacres reached France it was
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Chapter 11 - The Adventures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert: The terrible disasters in Florida did not altogether stop French
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Chapter 12 - About Sir Walter Raleigh's Adventures in the Golden: West
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Chapter 13 - The Adventures of Captain John Smith: Raleigh was the true father of England beyond the seas. He was a
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Chapter 14 - More Adventures of Captain John Smith: Smith had been away from the settlement nearly a month, and he
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Chapter 15 - How the Colony was Saved
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Chapter 16 - How Pocahontas Took a Journey Over the Seas: At peace with the Indians, the colonists could till their fields
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Chapter 17 - How the Redmen Fought Against Their White Brothers: The Colony of Virginia which had prospered so greatly under Sir
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Chapter 18 - How Englishmen Fought a Duel With Tyranny: At last Virginia prospered. But while it prospered the man who had
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Chapter 19 - The Coming of the Cavaliers: With a new King on the throne life in Virginia went on much as
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Chapter 20 - Bacon's Rebellion: For some time now the Indians had been an increasing terror to
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Chapter 21 - The Story of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
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Chapter 22 - The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers: While the Colony of Virginia was fighting for life, and struggling
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Chapter 23 - The Founding of Massachusetts: For ten years after the coming of the Pilgrim Fathers charters were
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Chapter 24 - The Story of Harry Vane: About this time there came to Massachusetts a handsome young
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Chapter 25 - The Story of Anne Hutchinson and the Founding of Rhode: Island
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Chapter 26 - The Founding of Harvard: One very good thing we have to remember about the first settlers of
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Chapter 27 - How Quakers First Came to New England: It was about the middle of the seventeenth century when a new kind
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Chapter 28 - How Maine and New Hampshire Were Founded: North of Massachusetts two more colonies, New Hampshire and Maine,
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Chapter 29 - The Founding of Connecticut and War with the Indians: Many of the people who founded Massachusetts Colony were well-to-do
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Chapter 30 - The Founding of New Haven: In spite of the menace of the Redmen, Englishmen continued to settle
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Chapter 31 - The Hunt for the Regicides: The Commonwealth of England did not last long. In 1660 King Charles
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Chapter 32 - King Philip's War
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Chapter 33 - How The Charter of Connecticut Was Saved: Meanwhile King Charles had not forgotten his anger against the
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Chapter 34 - The Witches of Salem: We have all read stories about witches, but we do not really believe
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Chapter 35 - The Founding of Maryland: About the same time as Gorges was making laws for his little kingdom
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Chapter 36 - How New Amsterdam Became New York: All the colonies which we have so far talked about were founded by
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Chapter 37 - How a German Ruled New York: When Sir Edmund Andros came to America, he had been made Governor
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Chapter 38 - Pirates!: Colonel Sloughter whose rule began in such stormy times proved
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Chapter 39 - The Founding of New Jersey: Out of New York another state had been carved. For before New York
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Chapter 40 - The Founding of Pennsylvania
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Chapter 41 - How Benjamin Franklin Came to Philadelphia: After Penn left his colony there was frequent trouble between the
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Chapter 42 - The Founding of North and South Carolina: It was in the part of the United States which we now call North
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Chapter 43 - War With the Indians in North and South Carolina: At first there had been no intention of making two provinces of
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Chapter 44 - The Founding of Georgia: South Carolina extended as far as the River Savannah, and between
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Chapter 45 - How the Mississippi was Discovered: While the shores of the Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Georgia were
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Chapter 46 - King William's War and Queen Anne's War: At this time in Europe France and Britain were at war. When King
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Chapter 47 - The Mississippi Bubble: Being thus encroached upon by the British the French became more
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Chapter 48 - How a Terrible Disaster Befell the British Army: We have now seen something of the great struggle between French
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Chapter 49 - The End of the French Rule in America: Braddock's campaign was a complete disaster. The French had
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Chapter 50 - The Rebellion of Pontiac: "Do you not know the difference between the King of France and the
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Chapter 51 - The Boston Tea party: All these wars which had been fought on American soil had cost a
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Chapter 52 - Paul Revere's Ride - The Unsheathing of the Sword: All the colonies now felt that they must unite in truth, and that
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Chapter 53 - The First Thrust-The Battle of Bunker Hill
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Chapter 54 - The War In Canada: After Bunker Hill there was a pause in the fighting round Boston
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Chapter 55 - The Birth of A Great Nation: While these things were happening in the north the British had been
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Chapter 56 - The Darkest Hour - Trenton and Princeton: In many places the news of the Declaration of Independence and the
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Chapter 57 - Burgoyne's Campaign - Bennington and Oriskany: As many of the Americans had foreseen, the British had from the
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Chapter 58 - Burgoyne's Campaign - Bemis Heights and Saratoga: After all the fierce fighting at Oriskany neither side could claim
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Chapter 59 - Brandywine - Germantown - Valley Forge: Washington spent the winter of 1776-7 at Morristown. In May he once
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Chapter 60 - War on the Sea: Besides being themselves more fit to fight, the Americans now
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Chapter 61 - The Battle of Monmouth - The Story of Captain Molly: While the Americans were learning endurance in the hard school of
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Chapter 62 - The Story of a Great Crime: For his strange conduct at the battle of Monmouth General Lee was
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Chapter 63 - A Turning Point in the World's History: After nearly four years' fighting the British had utterly failed
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Chapter 64 - Washington First In War, First In Peace: After the peace was signed in September, 1783, all the British
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Chapter 65 - Adams - How He Kept Peace with France: The crowd which gathered to see John Adams take the oath was almost
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Chapter 66 - Jefferson - How the Territory of the United States: was Doubled
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Chapter 67 - Jefferson - How the Door Into the Far West was Opened: Very little was known of this vast territory which was thus added
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Chapter 68 - Jefferson - About An American Who Wanted to be a King: When Jefferson had been chosen President, another man named Aron
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Chapter 69 - Madison - The Shooting Star and the Prophet: Jefferson was twice chosen President. He might, had he wished,
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Chapter 70 - Madison - War with Great Britain: The Berlin Decree, 1806, and the Orders in Council,1807
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Chapter 71 - Monroe-The First Whispers of a Storm-Monroe's Famous: Doctrine
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Chapter 72 - Adams - The Tariff of Abominations: In 1825 Monroe's term of office came to an end and John Quincy
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Chapter 73 - Jackson - "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever" - Van: Buren - Hard Times
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Chapter 74 - Harrison - The Hero of Tippecanoe: People had grown to dislike Van Buren so much that he had no chance
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Chapter 75 - Tyler - Florida Becomes a State: John Tyler now became President. At first there was some doubt as
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Chapter 76 - Polk - How Much Land Was Added to the United States
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Chapter 77 - Polk - The Finding of Gold: In return for the great tract of land ceded to the United States
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Chapter 78 - Taylor - Union or Disunion: Polk had no chance of being re-elected as President. For many
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Chapter 79 - Fillmore - The Underground Railroad: The Vice-President, Millard Fillmore, now became President. He was
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Chapter 80 - Pierce - The Story of "Bleeding Kansas": In 1853 Fillmore's term of office came to an end and Franklin Pierce
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Chapter 81 - Buchanan - The Story of the Mormons: THE President whom Douglas defied over the question of Kansas
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Chapter 82 - Buchanan - The First Shots: Meanwhile a great man was coming into power. This was Abraham
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Chapter 83 - Lincoln - From Bull Run to Fort Donelson
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Chapter 84 - Lincoln - The Story of the First Battle Between: Ironclads
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Chapter 85 - Lincoln - The Battle of Shiloh and the Taking of New: Orleans
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Chapter 86 - Lincoln - The Slaves are Made Free: The Federals rejoiced greatly at the successes of Grant and the
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Chapter 87 - Lincoln - Chancellorsville - The Death of Stonewall: Jackson
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Chapter 88 - Lincoln - The Battle of Gettysburg: The day after Jackson was wounded the battle of Chancellorsville
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Chapter 89 - Lincoln-Grant's Campaign-Sheridan's Ride: The victory of Gettysburg which had been so dearly bought was
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Chapter 90 - Lincoln - Sherman's March to the Sea - Lincoln Re-Elected: President
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Chapter 91 - Lincoln - The End of the War - The President's Death: No President ever took up his burden in a more great hearted
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Chapter 92 - Johnson - How The President Was Impeached: The Vice-President, Andrew Johnson, now became President. Like
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Chapter 93 - Grant - A Peaceful Victory: In l869 General Grant, who had made such a great name for himself
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Chapter 94 - Hayes - Garfield - Arthur: In l877 Rutherford B. Hayes became President. Ever since the Civil
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Chapter 95 - Cleveland - Harrison - Cleveland: In 1885 Arthur's term of office came to an end, and Grover Cleveland
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Chapter 96 - McKinley - War and Sudden Death: In 1897 William McKinley became President. Like some other Presidents
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Chapter 97 - Roosevelt - Taft: Upon McKinley's death Theodore Roosevelt, The Vice-President,
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Chapter 98 - Wilson - Troubles With Mexico: In 1913 Mr. Taft's term of office came to an end, and Mr. Woodrow
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Chapter 99 - Wilson -The Great War: The disorder in Mexico was distressing to America, it was disastrous
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