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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Madison Washington John Adams Monroe Jefferson The United States—Second War of Independence 1603 as well, continued to insult, befool, and rob us on the seas. A war partysprang up in Congress and waxed ever stronger. At its head was young HenryClay, one of the greatest of our statesmen. He and his followers deeply re-sented the scornful way in which all Europe treated us. They declared thatPresident Madison could not be kicked into a fight. Yet the very trait thusheld up to ridicule, the solemn unwillingness with which almost every one ofour Presidents has drawn back from war, is felt now as the highest evidence oftheir strength and of Americas civilization. Our mission is not that of squab-blers nor of murderers, but that of leaders in the paths of peace. If ever a nation was hounded into war by its enemy, ours was into that of1812. In 1811 a little British sloop-of-war dared to fire into our frigate, thePresident. The shot seems to have been delivered in pure insolence. The Presid

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