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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y at Ticonderoga under St. Clair; was in the field at Saratoga in 1777, and served a regular term in the army. But inconsequence of some lack of documents, or some technical error, he lost his legal title to a pension, and now,at eighty-five years of age, that feeble old soldier was obtaining a precarious support for himself from the freewill offerings of visitors to the ruins of the fortress where he was garrisoned when it stood in the pride of its strength, before Burgoyne scaled the heights of Mount Defiance. He is now alone, his family and kin-dred having all gone down into the grave. His elder brother, and the last of his race, who died in 1838, was one of the little band who, under Ethan Allen, surprised and captured Fort Ticonderoga in the Spring of 1775. Field Book of the Revolution, Vol. I., Chap. 6. BUNKER HILL MONUMENT IN 1848. I climbed to the summit of the great obelisk that Stands upon the site of the redoubt upon Breeds Hill.As I ascended the steps which lead from the street to
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Old Round Tower at Newport - BENSON JOHN LOSSING 453 the smooth gravel-walks upon the eminence where on the Bunker Hill Monument stands, I experienced a feeling of disappointment and regret not easily to be expressed. Before me was the memento—huge and grand—all that patriotic reverence could wish. But the ditch scooped out by Prescott's toilers on that starry night of June, and the mounds that were upheaved to protect them from shots of the astonished Britons,were effaced, and no more vestiges remain of the handiwork of those in whose honor, and to whose memory this obelisk was raised, than of the Roman conquests in the shadow of Trajans column ; of the naval battles of Nelson around his monument in Trafalgar Square ; or of French victories in the Place Vendome. The fosse and the breastworks were all quite prominent when the foundation-stone of the monument was laid in 1825 ; and a little care, directed by good taste,might have preserved them in their interesting state of half-ruin until the passage of the present centu

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