The American Revolution.- Fiske. Battles of the United States.- Dawson. Diary of the American Revolution.- Moore. Appropriate Selections: See p. 29, selection 4. August 28, 1619.- First negro slaves in the colonies. About August 28, 1619, a Dutch merchantman brought a shipload of twenty negroes to Virginia to be sold as slaves. A little over a year later the pilgrims landed in New England, and two antagonistic and opposing elements were then planted in America, that were destined to be in almost constant conflict until the question of slavery in the United States was settled forever by the great Civil war. References: Old Virginia and Her Neighbors.- Fiske. August 29, 1779.- Battle of Chemung. General Sullivan entered the region near the headwaters of the Susquehanna and Genesee rivers to punish the Indians for massacres. At Newtown, now Elmira, he gained a decisive victory in the battle of Chemung. References: American Revolution.- Fiske. Battles of the United States.- Dawson. Popular History of the United States.- Bryant. August 29, 1809.- Oliver Wendell Holmes born. Old Ironsides. The Season's Masterpiece. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. A. Dewey's Victory, May 1, 1898, 200. Admiral Dewey and the Spanish-American Dirge for a Soldier, 28. Carmen Bellicosum, 262. Centennial Hymn, 345. Citizenship, 366. General Grant and the Civil War, 187. Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 189, 193. Gray Forest Eagle, The, 133. H. Half-Masted Flag, The, 25. Civic Creed for the Boys and Girls of the Hats Off, 323. |