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Page 64
... called him the " Hair Buyer . " His program called for the extinc- tion of every American family beyond the Alleghenies . The frontier was spotted with American blood . Theodore Roosevelt called it the " war of extermination . " One day ...
... called him the " Hair Buyer . " His program called for the extinc- tion of every American family beyond the Alleghenies . The frontier was spotted with American blood . Theodore Roosevelt called it the " war of extermination . " One day ...
Page 84
... called him " Papa " Rochambeau and as his trim ranks marched through the Connecticut villages on their way to join the Americans on the Hudson , the countryside went wild while the girls wore French cockades and blew kisses to " Papa ...
... called him " Papa " Rochambeau and as his trim ranks marched through the Connecticut villages on their way to join the Americans on the Hudson , the countryside went wild while the girls wore French cockades and blew kisses to " Papa ...
Page 122
... called upon me , and said he came from the Baron de Nolken , and they had been con- versing upon the singular situation I was in , and they agreed in opinion that it was indispensable that I should make a speech , and that that speech ...
... called upon me , and said he came from the Baron de Nolken , and they had been con- versing upon the singular situation I was in , and they agreed in opinion that it was indispensable that I should make a speech , and that that speech ...
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refuses to answer a letter and loses thirteen fine | 9 |
Benjamin Franklin makes a freak suggestion | 15 |
John Adams writes his wife news of the Declaration of Inde | 21 |
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