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American Leaders and Heroes

American Leaders and Heroes

by Wilbur F. GORDY (1854 - 1929)

Historian Wilbur F. Gordy presents short chapters on well-known American figures from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, including explorers, political leaders, military figures and inventors. - Summary by Larry Wilson


Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865

Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845

Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790

Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687

Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506

Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820

Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852

George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799

George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799

Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542

James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759

John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631

Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656

Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676

Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786

Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799

Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818

Preface

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815

Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683

Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803

Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872

Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618

Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826

Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885

William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718