Backdrop for the Star Spangled Banner: A Look at Some Key Events Leading up to the ‘Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave’AuthorHouse, 26/07/2007 - 92 من الصفحات What was life like for Americans who lived, fought, and perhaps died in and around Maryland during the French and Indian War? The American Revolution? The War of 1812? What effect did those events have on the destiny of a young nation? Who was this man that wrote the song that brings all United States citizens to their feet, hats in hand, snapping off sharp salutes or standing with hands over hearts? This book provides some possible answers to those questions. |
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الصفحة 44 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
الصفحة 44 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just ; And this be our motto :
الصفحة 44 - On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: <Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
الصفحة 39 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
الصفحة 44 - As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream. 'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And...
الصفحة 8 - Gholson' s mother was Susannah Collins, daughter of Captain Joseph Collins, who fought in the French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War), and Susannah Lewis, probably the daughter of Zachary Lewis.
الصفحة iv - The Canadian group is small, inasmuch as the majority of the books that related in part to Canada are classed with the American Revolution, the French and Indian War, and the War of 1812. The frontier group contains the stories of the earliest frontiers, follows the westward movement,8 and is rich in Indian material.