This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...by lightning, the sea, not the blue, the ever free, but the bellowing, bold, bounding ocean, is pictured in such men as Reid. And as the vast procession followed his remains to their final repose in Greenwood, the scenes of our country's triumph passed before each vision. The flags, waving at half-mast ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...by lightning, the sea, not the blue, the ever free, but the bellowing, bold, bounding ocean, is pictured in such men as Reid. And as the vast procession followed his remains to their final repose in Greenwood, the scenes of our country's triumph passed before each vision. The flags, waving at half-mast, told of the victories on sea and land, and the guns which boomed from the liattery recited over again the terrific fight of the General Armstrong against the midnight attack, in a neutral port, of the British assassin." were enlarged and strengthened. Castle Garden was erected at the foot of Broadway; Fort Gansevoort was built at the bend of the Hudson, foot of Gansevoort Street; Fort Stevens at Hallet's Point near Hell Gate, with a stone tower on Lawrence Hill in its rear--the Long Island shore opposite was at the same time defended by fortifications at Benson's Point--and in the middle of the East River, Mill Rock was crowned with a block-house and battery; Forts Clinton and Fish were erected to protect McGowan's Pass on the road to Harlem, and Fort Laight on the eminence overlooking Manhattanville. On the bank of the Hudson, near the residence of Viscount Courtenay, afterward Earl of Devon, was a strong stone tower, connected by a line of intrenchments with Fort Laight. Although the city could be approached from several directions, its attitude was so defiant that the prospect was not at all encouraging to the enemy. October brought no relief. Congress quarreled over a project for the removal of the seat of government, and talked about amending the Constitution; while various proposals to raise the prostrate credit of the United States engaged attention. George W. Campbell, Secretary of the Treasury since Gallatin's departure for...
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