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Benjamin Franklin
published many words of wisdom in Poor Richard's Almanac.
Poor Richard's Almanac
was the second most popular book in American Colonial days.
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John Paul Jones
is known as the father of the United States Navy. He was not afraid to fight against the much better equipped English Navy.
His victory proves that determination goes farther than material wealth and
might.
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Patrick Henry
made this famous statement in a speech at the Virginia Provincial Convention.
He was telling the people that Virginia should be ready to fight against England
during the American Revolution.
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Francis Scott Key
is most famous for writing The Star Spangled Banner (our national anthem).
But he also said, "And this be our motto, in God is our trust."
You see almost these same words on United States money.
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Abraham Lincoln
said these famous words in a speech that has become known as the Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln was president during the Civil War. Fortunately, that war did not
split our country into two separate countries.
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Chief Joseph
led his people (the Nez Perce Indians) in a brilliant retreat from the United States Army.
Chief Joseph was only trying to lead his people to Canada, where they could
continue to live in peace in the ways that they had always lived. He led his band of men, women, children, and elders more than 1,000 miles.
But the United States Army chased them, and caught them only 40 miles from
the Canadian border.
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The Nez Perce had wonderful horses. When
Chief Joseph surrendered, the US Army killed most of the herd. But those horses that survived became known as the Appaloosa. |
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