
American Leaders and Heroes - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Wilbur F. Gordy,
Language: English
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- 1. Preface
- 2. Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506
- 3. Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542
- 4. Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618
- 5. John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631
- 6. Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676
- 7. Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656
- 8. Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683
- 9. William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718
- 10. Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687
- 11. George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799
- 12. James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759
- 13. Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799
- 14. Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803
- 15. Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818
- 16. Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790
- 17. George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799
- 18. Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786
- 19. Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820
- 20. Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826
- 21. Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815
- 22. Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845
- 23. Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852
- 24. Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872
- 25. Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865
- 26. Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885
- 27. Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899
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Historian Wilbur F. Gordy presents short chapters on well-known American figures from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, including explorers, political leaders, military figures and inventors. - Summary by Larry Wilson
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