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... stood in the fore - front of a nation's life . " In any book which undertakes to tell , no matter how slightly , the story of some of the heroic deeds of American history , that noble figure must always stand in the fore - front . But ...
... stood in the fore - front of a nation's life . " In any book which undertakes to tell , no matter how slightly , the story of some of the heroic deeds of American history , that noble figure must always stand in the fore - front . But ...
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... stood at the head of the national movement , and to him all men turned who desired a better union and sought to bring order out of chaos . With him Hamilton and Madison consulted in the pre- liminary stages which were to lead to the ...
... stood at the head of the national movement , and to him all men turned who desired a better union and sought to bring order out of chaos . With him Hamilton and Madison consulted in the pre- liminary stages which were to lead to the ...
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... stood at the head of that class of Indian - fighters , game - hunters , forest - fellers , and backwoods farmers who , generation after gen- eration , pushed westward the border " " of civili- As zation from the Alleghanies to the ...
... stood at the head of that class of Indian - fighters , game - hunters , forest - fellers , and backwoods farmers who , generation after gen- eration , pushed westward the border " " of civili- As zation from the Alleghanies to the ...
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... stood the American detachments , but the away between their ground . numbers of the It is difficult to get at the exact American troops , but Stark seems to have had between fifteen hundred and two thou- sand militia . He thus ...
... stood the American detachments , but the away between their ground . numbers of the It is difficult to get at the exact American troops , but Stark seems to have had between fifteen hundred and two thou- sand militia . He thus ...
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... stood their ground stubbornly , while the New England farmers rushed up to within eight yards of the cannon , and picked off the men who manned the guns . Stark himself was in the midst of the fray , fighting with his soldiers , and ...
... stood their ground stubbornly , while the New England farmers rushed up to within eight yards of the cannon , and picked off the men who manned the guns . Stark himself was in the midst of the fray , fighting with his soldiers , and ...
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