Identifier: lestweforgetgodc00will (find matches)
Title: "Lest we forget!" God and country
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Williamson, William Hay
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Publisher: (Chicago, Theodore Roosevelt post no. 627, American legion
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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SEPTEMBER 13^1814TTie Star Spangled Banner TOURING the bombardment of Fort Mc-^-^ Henry by the British in the War of 1812,Francis Scott Key, on September 13, 1814,composed**The Star Spangled Banner aboarda vessel rocked by the cannonade. Sing ittoday! **0h, say, can you see By the dawns early lightWhat so proudly we hailed At the twilights last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright starsThrough the perilous fight. Oer the ramparts we watchedWere so gallantly streaming.And the rockets red glare,The bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the nightThat our flag was still there:Oh, say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave?Oer the land of the free And the home of the brave! Long live the United States of America! D EMOCRACY TRIUMPHANT
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OCTOBER 19^-1781 njie Surrender ofYorkiown OUT generaled by Washington, his retreatcut off by land and water, his outpostscaptured and his fortifications crumblingunder cannon fire, Lord Cornwallis surren-dered his powerful British army at Yorktown,Va., on October 19, 1781, and the War of theAmerican Revolution was won. With his three divisions commanded by thesuperb La Fayette, Von Steuben and Lincoln,Commander-in-Chief George Washington andthe American troops were supported by aFrench army under the Compte de Rocham-beau, and a French fleet under the Compte deGrasse. From that day the torch of freedom,held high through nearly seven weary yearsof war, has illumined the world. The best minds in Britain rejoiced at theAmerican victory at Yorktown; the city ofLondon entreated King George to end thisunfortunate and unrighteous war, and onFebruary 22, 1782,—Washingtons Birthday,the House of Commons voted to sue for peace. Long live the United States of America! iA UTOCRACY CRUSHED KALEV

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