... chapter of accidents to extricate him from a dilemma in which it is as fatal to stand still as it may be to go forward. Independence Day w as duly celebrated on the day after the repulse of General Lee, but before the details were known. Whatever may have ...

... customary salutes with the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief and the saluting battery of the garrison. Saturday being Independence Day she was decked with huge American ensigns at mastheads and peak, and colours at each yard arm, and at noon fired a salute ...

... customary salutes with the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief and the saluting battery of the garrison. Saturday being independence Day she was decked with huge American ensigns at mastheads and peak, and colours at each yard arm, and at noon fired a salute ...

... of accidents to ext ricate him from a di- I lemma in which it is as fatal to stand still as it may be to go forward. Independence Day was duly celebrated on the day after the repulse oWhf G e neral Lee, but before the Whatever may have been the details ...

... h m Commander-in-Chief customary salutes t a e n s d w t i h th e saluting batte r y of the garrison. Saturday being Independence Day she was decked with huge American ensigns at mastheads and peak. and colours at each yard arm, and at noon fired a salute ...

... little boys swarm in all the streets, letting off squibbs and crackers ; for the juvenile heart of the American population Independence-day answers to Guy Faux-day in England, and is commemorated with riot and fireworks, with this difference that American ...

... little boys swarm in all the streets, letting off squibbs and crackers; for the juvenile heart of the American population Independence-day answers to Gay Faux-day i n England, and is commemorated with riot and firework s, with this difference that American ...