Identifier: storyofgreatestn09elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Washington, who slipped quietly away from the north and had his army in Virginia before the British knew what had become of him. With the aid of a powerful French fleet and a small French army under Count Rochambeau, he surrounded Cornwallis and compelled his surrender. This brilliant capture of an entire British army led to avery general feeling in America that the war was over, that England would be too exhausted to gather fresh troops and expend them in a renewed attack. Hence the French and American officers who had fraternized at Yorktown united in celebrating a peace ball, which should serve equally as a memento of their victory and as a means of strengthening their mutual friendship. To this ball Washington brought not only his wife, but also his aged mother from their Virginia home. His mother, as the chief lady of the land, welcomed the French officers, Rochambeau, Lafayette and the others, thanking them for their services while receiving their congratulations on her sons great victory.
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The Peace Ball. Washington, his mother, and his wife received at the ball to celebrate the surrender of Cornwallis.

The United States—Spirit of Lawlessness ^5^5 quietly to the society of his wife and aged mother at Mount Vernon, his Virginia home. Yet another dangerous problem for the States lay in their conflicting claims to the territory west of the Alleghanies. By the treaty of 1783, Great Britain ceded to them all of this vast tract, east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes. You will recall how vague and contradictory had been the original grants of land made by various kings to the founders of colonies. Virginia, the oldest, largest, and most powerful of the States, claimed that her boundaries extended indefinitely northward and westward beyond the Alleghanies. Other States claimed portions of this Northwest Territory. Massachusetts and Connecticut asserted rights to what is now western New York.That State looked on Vermont as a part of her domains. Amid all these jang-ling quarrels agreement seemed impossible. The neutral European powers began to take note of our existence, Pru

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