Hero Tales from History — Henry W. Longfellow, The American Children's Poet

HENRY W.

LONGFELLOW, THE AMERICAN CHILDREN’S POET

Living in Portland, Maine, a town of rare beauty, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow could hardly have helped being a poet, even if he had tried.

He was born in a big, square, three-story house, close to the edge of Casco Bay, one of the largest and loveliest harbors in the world.

Portland stands on several wooded hills, overlooking the bay, which is said to contain three hundred and sixty-five small islands--one for every day in the year.

On the blue water the green islands sparkle like emeralds on a shining sea of sapphire.

From the highest point on Great Diamond, one of the larger islands in the harbor, little Henry could see, sometimes, as the sun was setting behind the hills of Portland, the hazy blue and pink outlines of the White Mountains, more than a hundred miles away.

Any boy with eyes and heart to take in the deep meaning of it all would have wanted to be a poet.

Henry’s inner nature throbbed in response to the beauties of Nature without, and because he had the gift of putting his feelings into words, he was a poet long before he or those around him realized it.

Like the boy Benjamin Franklin and the boy George Washington, who lived about a hundred years before him, the Longfellow boy had the best chances to hear the sailors who came into port tell their tales of the sea--of pirates and hairbreadth adventures.

Henry’s grandfather--his mother’s father--was bluff old General Peleg Wadsworth, a hero of the Revolutionary War.

He could tell stories of the struggle for independence that would have fired the soul of any boy.

[Illustration: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

] In the War of 1812, when the little Longfellow lad was only five, a company of American soldiers was stationed in the fort at Portland to defend the town against attacks from British warships.

Young as Henry was, he understood what all the excitement meant.

When he was in his seventh year, he heard the booming of the cannon in the great sea battle between the American brig _Enterprise_ and the British schooner _Boxer_.

Both commanders were killed and buried on one of the hills of Portland.

There was a sensation when the _Enterprise_ towed the _Boxer_ into port as a prize of war.

In the poem, “My Lost Youth,” nearly fifty years after the battle, Longfellow wrote: “I remember the sea-fight far away How it thundered o’er the tide!

And the dead captains as they lay In their graves o’erlooking the tranquil bay Where they in battle died.

” Out near Hiram, Maine, where the Wadsworth family lived, there was a little lake known as Lovell’s Pond.

On one of his visits to his grandfather’s, young Henry heard the story of a battle which had taken place there during the French and Indian War.

When he was thirteen he wrote four stanzas which he named “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond.

” Signing it “Henry,” he left it at the office of the Portland _Gazette_, telling only his sister what he had done.

A writer has told a story of the way Henry’s first published poem was received: “In the morning how slowly the father unfolded the damp sheet, and how carefully he dried it at the open fire before he began to read it!

And how much foreign news there seemed to be in it!

“At last, Henry and the sister who shared his secret peeped over their parent’s shoulder--and the poem was there!

They spent most of the day reading it.

In the evening they went to play with a son of Judge Mellen, and while the judge was sitting by the fire in the twilight with the young folk and a few older neighbors around him, he said, “Did you see the piece in to-day’s paper?

Very stiff, remarkably stiff!

Moreover, it is all borrowed--every word of it!

” When Henry was fifteen, his father sent him to Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine, with his older brother, Stephen.

Though the father was himself a graduate of Harvard, he was a director of this new college in his own state.

Henry was graduated at eighteen and, young though he was, the trustees of the college invited him to come back, a few years later, as their professor of modern languages.

So the young graduate traveled in Europe to gain a speaking knowledge of all the languages he would have to teach.

At the age of twenty-two, he became a professor at Bowdoin.

After five years at his own college, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was chosen Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard.

He spent the first year in Europe.

The next year he began his work as a Harvard professor.

He boarded at the Craigie mansion, which had been General Washington’s headquarters during the first year of the War for Independence, sixty years before.

Indeed, he slept in the same room occupied by the Father of his Country as a bedroom.

Although he had published several books of poetry, Longfellow’s poems did not begin to be popular till “A Psalm of Life” was published, in his thirty-third year.

This poem made many people talk about him.

Ministers preached about it, and the lines were set to music.

Here is one stanza of this famous poem: “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time.

” Then such short poems as “Excelsior,” “The Village Blacksmith,” “The Rainy Day,” “The Arrow and the Song,” “The Day Is Done,” and many others, were recited in schools and sung in thousands of homes.

Of Longfellow’s longer poems, “Evangeline” and “The Courtship of Miles Standish” are, perhaps, the most popular.

It is said that more people know of the Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth through the latter poem than by reading the history of the country.

It is a story of the lovely Priscilla and her true lover, John Alden, who came to ask her to marry Miles Standish.

That little captain was brave enough to fight with savages, but he shrank from the bright eyes of Priscilla Mullens.

John Alden was a true soldier and delivered his captain’s message, but Priscilla, knowing his loyal heart, only smiled at him and asked: “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?

” And one of the great-great-great-grandsons of John Alden and his lovely wife, Priscilla, was the poet Longfellow!

“Hiawatha,” the poem about the Indian tribes, is also a great favorite, especially with the children.

This is because of its descriptions of Indian customs and legends.

It is the life history of the Indian boy, Hiawatha, from the time when he was a funny little papoose till he had grown to sturdy manhood.

When the little Indian boy was old enough he was sent out on a lone hunt through the wilderness to fit himself to become a true Indian brave.

Here is what he did and saw and heard at that time: “Forth into the forest straightway All alone walked Hiawatha Proudly, with his bow and arrows;

And the birds sang round him, o’er him: ‘Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!

’ Sang the robin, the Opeechee, Sang the bluebird, the Owaissa, ‘Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!

’ “Up the oak-tree close behind him, Sprang the squirrel, Adjidaumo, In and out among the branches, Coughed and chattered from the oak-tree, Laughed, and said between his laughing, ‘Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!

’” Some of the Indian tribes of the Great Northwest were so delighted with “Hiawatha” that they voted to make the poet one of their great chiefs;

and after Longfellow himself had gone to the “Happy Hunting Grounds” across the River of Death, the Indians went through a formal service making the poet’s daughter Alice a girl chief.

It must have been because he was so fond of children that Longfellow became known as the “Children’s Poet.

” In the hall of quaint old Craigie House, which became the poet’s home, stood the stately “Old Clock on the Stairs,” solemnly ticking: “Forever, never!

Never, forever!

” In the early morning the spacious rooms were made bright with the merry laughter of Longfellow’s three little daughters, running down to spend an hour with their kindly, white-haired poet father.

Of this he wrote in a poem named “The Children’s Hour”: “From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.

” Longfellow’s last poem was about “The Bells of San Blas,” which appeared in print just a few days before he died.

The close of this--the last poetry he ever wrote--were these three lines: “Out of the shadow of night The world rolls into light-- It is daybreak everywhere.

” INDEX

KEY TO PRONUNCIATION

āte, sen*ate, râre, căt, loc*al, fär, åsk, p_å_rade; scēne, *event, ĕdge, nov*el, refḛr; rîght, sĭn; cōld, *obey, côrd, stŏp, c*ompare;

ūnit, *unite, bûrn, cŭt, foc*us, menü; bōōt, fŏŏt; f=ou=nd; b=oi=l;

fuṅction; =ch=ase; =g=ood; =j=oy; _th_en, =th=ick; hw = wh as in when; zh = z as in azure; kh = ch as in loch.

A

Aaron (ā´r*on), 3 Aboukir (_å_-bōō-kēr´) Bay, 75 Achilles (å-kĭl´ēz), 12 Acre (ä´kêr), (see _Akka_) Africa (ăf´rĭ-k_å_), 32 Akka (ä´kå), 49 Albany (ôl´b_å_-nĭ), 118 Alciun (*al´sĭ-ŭn), 33 Alden (ôl´dĕn), John, 162 Alexander (ăl´´ĕg-zăn´dĕr) the Great, 20-24;

conquers Persia, 22 Alexandria (ăl´´ĕg-zăn´drĭ-_å_), 24 Alfred (ăl´frĕd), King, 37, 41 Alfred the Great, (see _Alfred, King_) Alps (ălps) Mountains, 69 Annapolis (ă-nåp´*o-lĭs), 342 “Apology of Socrates,” 19 Arden (är´dĕn), Mary, 58 “Ashland,” 325 Asia Minor (ā´sh_å_ mī´nḛr), 26 Athens (ăth´ĕnz), 15 Aztecs (ăz´tĕks), 90 B

Baltimore (bôl´tĭ-mōr), (See _Calvert, George_) Barton (bär´tŭn), Clara, 358-364 Battle Hill, 44 Beacon Hill, 174 Blackstone, William, 173 _Bon Homme Richard_ (b*o-n*om rē´´-shär´), 212 Boone (bōōn), Daniel, 232-240 Boulogne (bōō-lŏn´; Fr.

bōō´´lō´ṅy), 36 Bowdoin (bō´d’n) College, 368 Bowie (bō´*e), Colonel James, 265 Braddock (brăd´*ok), General Edward, 301 Bradford (brăd´fḛrd), William, 162 Brandywine (brăn´dĭ-wīn´´), battle of, 205, 304 Brewster (brōō´stḛr), Elder, 161 Britain (brit´_å_n), 28 Bryant (brē´_å_nt), William Cullen, 332 Bull Run, battle of, 345 Burr (bŭr), Colonel Aaron, 304, 308 C

Cabot (kă´b*ot), John, 145 Cadiz (kā´dĭz), 113 Cæsar (sē´z_å_r), Julius, 24-31 Calhoun (kăl-hōōn´), John C. , 320-327 Calvert (kăl´vûrt), Cecil, 180-185 Calvert (kăl´vûrt), Leonard, 180-185 Cape Cod, 162 Cartier (kär´tyå´), Jacques, 151 Carver (kär´vḛr), John, 161 Cassandra (kă-săn´dr_å_), 13 Cathay (cå´thā), (see _China_) Champlain (shăm-plān´), Samuel, sieur de, 151-160 Charlemagne (shär´lĕ-mān), (see _Charles the Great_) Charles the Great, 33-36 Charles Martel, Duke, 32 China (chī´n_å_), 79 Circe (sûr´sē), 14 Claiborne (klā´bûrn), William, 183 Clarence, Duke of, (see _William the Fourth_) Clark (klärk), George Rogers, 240-247 Clark, William, 250-257 Clay (klā), Henry, 320-325 Code Napoleon, 69 Columbus (k*o-lŭm´b*us), Christopher, 78-84 Congo (kŏn´gō), 132 Constantinople (kŏn´´stăn-tĭ-nō´pl), 36 Cook, Frederick A. , 139 Copenhagen (kō´´p*en-hā´g*en), 76 Cornwallis (kôrn-wăl´´ĭs), General Charles, 206, 217 Corsica (kôr´sĭ-k_å_), 66 Cortes (kōr´´tās´) Hernando, 89-95 Cotton-gin (kŏt´n-jĭn), 267 Crockett (krŏk´ĕt), David, 258-265 Cromwell (krŏm´wĕl), Oliver, 61-65 Crusades (krōō-sāds´), 48 Cyclops (sē´klŏps), 13 Czar (zär), 31 D

Danes (dāns), 38 Darien (dā´rĭ-ĕn), 105 Darius (dă-rī´ŭs), King of Persia, 21 Dark Ages, 32 Dauphin (dô´fĭn), 52 David (dā´vĭd), 6-10, 40;

kills Goliath, 8 Davis (dā´vĭs), Jefferson, 342 Declaration of Independence, 184, 188, 301, 313 Denmark (dĕn´märk), 76 De Soto (dē´sō´to), Hernando, 96-101 Dewey (dū´ĭ), Admiral George, 356 Dictator (dĭk´tā-tḛr), 29 Domesday (dōōms´dā), Book, 46 Douglas (dŭg´lis), Stephen A. , 331 Drake (drāk), Sir Francis, 102-109 Duke Charles, (see _Charles Martel_) Dutch East India Company, 115 E

Edison (ĕd´ĭ-s*un), Thomas Alva, 285-291 Edward the Confessor, King, 43 Egypt (ē´jĭpt), 22 Egyptians (*e-jĭp´sh*ans), 3 El Dorado (*el d*o-rä´dō), 113 Eliab (*e-lī´_å_b), 7 Elijah (*e-li´j_å_), 308 Elizabeth (*e-lĭz´_å_-beth), Queen, 61, 105, 109 Emancipation Proclamation, 331 England (ĭn´gl*and), 108 Epic (ĕp´ĭk), 12 “Et tu Brute!

”, 30 Europe (ū´r*op), 32 Exodus (ĕk´s*o-dŭs), 4 F

Farragut (făr´_å_-gŭt), David, 346-352 Ferdinand (fḛr´dĭ-nănd), King, 80 Field, Cyrus W. , 278 Fort Donelson (dŏn´*el-s*un), battle of, 339 Fort Duquesne (dōō-kān´), 234, 301 Fort Henry (hĕn´rĭ), battle of, 339 Fort Sumter (sŭm´tḛr), 362 Forum (fō´rŭm), Roman, 26 Fox (fŏks), George, 185 Franklin (frănk´lĭn), Benjamin, 203, 271, 290, 292-296 Franks (frăṅks), 32 French (frĕnsh), 32 Fulton (fōōl´t*un), Robert, 270-273 G

Gama (gä´mä), Vasco da, 84 Gauls (gâls), 27 Genoa (jĕn´ō-å), 78 George the Third, King, 313 Germans (jûr´m*ans), 36 Gettysburg (gĕt´tĭs-bŭrg) Address, Lincoln’s, 332 Gibraltar (jī-brâl´tēr), 152 “Give me Liberty or give me Death,” 194 Gladiators (glăd´ĭ-ā´´-tḛr), 27 Gods and Goddesses, 12 “Golden Hind,” The, 105 Golden Rule, 177 Goliath (g*o-lī´ăth), 8 Good Hope, Cape of, 84 Gordian (gôr´dĭ-ăn) knot, 22 Graces (grā´s*ez), The, 15 Grant (grănt), General Ulysses S. , 332-340 Greece (grēs), 10 Greene (grēn), General Nathanael, 266 Guerrilla (gĕ-rĭl´_å_) warfare, 219 H

Hamilton (hăm´ĭl-t*un), Alexander, 301-309 Hamilton, Henry, 241 Hampden (håmp´d*en), John, 64 Hale (hāl), Captain Nathan, 194-201 “Halfmoon,” The, 115 Harold, King, 44 Harvard (här´v_å_rd), University, 342, 355 Hastings (hās´tĭngz), battle of, 44 Hawkins (hô´kĭnz), Sir John, 103 Hayne (hān), Robert Y. , 326 Hector (hĕk´tḛr), 12 Helen (hĕl´ĕn) of Troy, 12 Henry of Navarre, King, (see _Henry the Fourth_) Henry the Fourth, King, 151 Henry, Patrick, 190-194, 242 Henson (hĕn´sŭn), Matthew, 139 Homer (hō´mḛr), 10 Horn, Cape, 105 House of Burgesses, Virginia, 193 Houston (hūs´t*un), General Sam, 264 Howe (how), Elias, 282-285 Howe, General William, 196 Hudson (hŭd´s*un), Henry, 115-120 I

“I have not yet begun to fight,” 214 “Iliad,” the, 12 Ilium (ĭl´ĭ-*um), (see _Troy_) India (ĭn´dĭ-_å_), 79, 84 “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” 201 Iroquois (ĭr´´*o-kwoī´), 154 Isabella (ĭz´´_å_-bĕl´_å_), Queen, 80 Israel (ēs´´rä-ĕl), 7 Italy (ĭt´_å_-lĭ; It.

Italia), 78 Ithaca (ĭth´_å_-k_å_), 13 J

Jackson (jăk´s*un), Andrew, 260, 315-320 Jefferson (jĕf´ḛr-s*un), Thomas, 242, 309-314 Jerusalem (j*e-rōō´s_å_-lĕm), 48 Joan (jō´ăn) of Arc, 52-57 John, King, 47 Joliet (zh*o´´ly*a´), Louis, 121 Jonathan (jŏn´ă-th*an), 10 Jones (jōns), John Paul, 208-216 K

Kaiser (kī´zḛr), 31 Kent Island, 183 King’s College, 302 L

Ladrone (lă-drōn´) Islands, 88 Lafayette (lä´fā-yet´´), Marquis de, 201-208, 276, 304 La Plata (lä plä´tä) River, 86 La Salle (lä säl), Robert, Cavalier de, 120 Latin (lăt´ĭn), 25 Lee, Richard Henry, 193, 311 Lee, General Robert E. , 340, 341-346 Lewis (lōō´ĭs) and Clark (klärk) Expedition, 247-257, 314 Lewis (lōō´is), Meriwether, 248 Lincoln (lĭng´kŭn), Abraham, 318, 327-332 Lion-hearted Richard, 47-51 Livingstone (lĭv´ĭng-stŭn), David, 126-136 Lombards (lŏm´bărds), 33 Longfellow (lŏng´fĕl-*o), Henry Wadsworth, 167, 356-371 Louisiana (Lōō´´ē-zē-ă´n_å_) Purchase, 314 M

Macedon (măs´*e-dŏn), 20 Madison (măd´ĭ-s*un), President James, 325 Magellan (må-jĕl´_å_n), Ferdinand, 84-89 Manassas, battle of, (see _Bull Run_) Manhattan, 116 Marconi (mär-kō´nĭ), Guglielmo, 278 Marengo (mă-rĕng´*o), battle of, 69 Marianne (see _Ladrone Islands_) Marie Antoinette (mă´´rē´ ăn´´twå-nĕt´), Queen, 76 Marion (măr´ē-*on), General Francis, 217-223 Marquette (mär´kĕt´´), Father Jacques, 121 Maryland (mĕr´ĭ-l_å_nd), 182 “Mayflower”, the, 160 McCormick (m_å_-kôr´mĭk), Cyrus H. , 279-282 McKinley (mā-kĭn´lĭ), President William, 356 Mexican (mĕks´ĭ-kăn) War, 339 “Might makes Right,” 31 Milton (mĭl´tŭn), John, 170 Miriam (mĭr´ē-ăm), 1 Mississippi (mĭs´´ĭs-sĭp´pĭ) River, 101, 120 Mobile (mŏ-bēl´) Bay, battle of, 350 Moffatt (mŏf´ĕt), Doctor Robert, 128 Mohammed (mō-hăm´ĕd), 32 Moluccas (mō-lŭk´_å_z), (see _Spice Islands_) Monroe (mŏn-rō´), President James, 207 Montcalm (môn´´käm´), Marquis de, 225 Monterey (mŏn-tĕ-rā´), battle of, 339 Montezuma (mŏn´´t*e-zōō´m_å_), Emperor, 91 “Monticello” (mŏn´´tĭ-sĕl´ō), 311 Montreal (mŏn´´trē-ôl´), 120, 152 Morse (mŏrs), Samuel Finley Breese, 274-278 Moses, 1-6, 308;

in the bulrushes, 1 Mount Sinai (Sī´nī), 6 Mount Vernon (vûr´nŭn), 300 N

Naples (nā´plz), Queen of, 76 Napoleon Bonaparte (nå-pō´lē-on bō´n_å_-pärt), 65-72, 314 Naval Academy, U. S.

, 342 Nebo (nē´bō), 6 Nelson (nĕl´s*un), Admiral Horatio, 72-77 New Netherland (nĕth´ḛr-lănd), 116 New Orleans (ôr´l*e-_å_nz), 314, 349;

battle of, 318 Niagara (nī-ă´g_å_-rå) Falls, 122 Nightingale (nīt´ĭn-gāl), Florence, 362 Nile (nīl) River, 24 Northmen, 38 North Pole, discovery of, 137 O

“Odyssey,” the, 12 “Old Hickory,” 318 Oliver (ŏl´ĭ-vûr), 34 Orleans (ôr´l*e-_å_nz), 53 Oxford (ŏks´fḛrd), University, 185 P

paladins (păl´_å_-dĭns), 34 Panama (păn-_å_-mä´), Isthmus of, (see _Darien_) Paris (Pă´rĭs; Fr.

pä´´rē´), 12 Passover (pås´ō´´vḛr), 4 Patagonia (pă´´t_å_-gō´nĭ-_å_), 87 Patrician (p_å_-trĭsh´*an), 26 Patroclus (p_å_-trō´klŭs), 12 Peary (pē´rĭ), Marie Snowbaby, 141 Admiral Robert E. , 137 Penelope (p*e-nĕl´*o-p*e), 14 Pennsylvania (pĕn´´sĭl-vā´nĭ-_å_), 185 Penn (pĕn), Admiral Sir William, 185;

William, 152, 178, 185 Pericles (pĕr´ĭ-klēs), 15 Persia (pḛr´zh_å_), 21 Pharaoh (fā´rō; fā´r*a-ō), 1, 5 Philadelphia (fĭl´´_å_-dĕl´fĭ-_å_), 188 Philip (fĭl´ĭp) King of Macedon, 20 Philistines (fĭ-lĭs´tĭns; fĭl´ĭs-tĭns), 7 philosophers (fĭ-lŏs´*o-fḛrs), 16 Pilgrims (pĭl´grĭms), 150, 161 Plato (plā´tō), 19 Plymouth (plĭ´m*uth), 108, 160 Pocahontas (pō´´c_å_-hŏn´t_å_s), 150 Pompey (pŏm´pĭ), 28 Ponce de Leon (pōn´thā dā lā´on), 96 “Poor Richard’s Almanac,” 294 Pope (pōp), 33;

Leo, 36 Portugal (pôr´t*u-g_å_l), 78 Priam (prī´ăm), King, 12 Providence (prŏv´ĭ-d*ens), 180 Psalms (säms), 10 Putnam (pŭt´n_å_m), General Israel, 196 Q

Quakers (kwāk´ḛrs), 177, 185 Quebec (kwē-bĕk´), 151, 224 R

Raleigh (rô´lĭ), Sir Walter, 109 Ranger (rān´jḛr), 209 Red Sea, 4 Rheims (räṅs; Eng.

rēmz), 52 Richard, King, 47 Robert, Duke of Normandy, 42 Roland, 34 Rolfe, John, 150 Rome (rōm), 24, 25 Roosevelt (rō´z*e-vĕlt), Theodore, 352 Rouen (rü´´äṅ´), 57, 120 Rubicon (rōō´bĭ-kŏn), 29 S

St. Helena (h*e-lē´n_å_), 71 St. Lawrence (lô´r*ens) River, 120 Saladin (săl´ă-dĭn), 49 Samuel, 7 Saracens (săr´_å_-sĕns), 32 Saul (sôl), King, 7, 40 schools of philosophy, 16 Schuyler (skī´lḛr), General Philip, 306 Scylla (sĭl´_å_) and Charybdis (k_å_-rĭb´dĭs), 14 Senate (sĕn´*at), (Roman), 28 Senlac (sĕn´lăk) Hill (see _Battle Hill_) Shakespeare (shāk´-spēr), William, 30, 58 Sirens (sī´rĕnz), 14 Smith, Captain John, 116, 145-150 Society of Friends, (see _Quakers_) Socrates (sŏk´r_å_-tĕz), 15 “Socratic method,” 17 Solomon (sŏl´*o-m*un), King, 10, 24 “Song of Roland,” 34 South Sea, (see _Pacific Ocean_) Spain (spān), 27, 32, 113 Spanish Armada (är-mā´d_å_), 109 Spice (spīs) Islands, 84 Stamp Act, 311 Standish (stănd´ĭsh), Myles, 160 Stanley (stăn´lĭ), Henry M. , 134 Stratford-on-Avon (ā´v*on), 58 Stuart (stū´_å_rt), James, 62, 113 T

tablets, 6, 26 Ten Commandments, 6 Tierra del Fuego (t*e-ĕr´rå dĕl fwā´g*o), 88 Tories (tō´rĭz), 197, 217 Tours (tōōrz), 32 Trafalgar (tr_å_-făl´g_å_r) battle of, 72 Travis, Colonel William Barrett, 264 Trojan (trō´j*an) horse, 13 Trojans, 13 Troy (troi), 12;

war against, 12 U

Ulysses (*u-lĭs´ēz), 13 Ulysses’ bow, 15 V

Valley Forge (fôrj), 205, 304 Valparaiso (văl´´p_å_-rī´sō), 106 Venice (vĕn´ĭs), 78 “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” 30 Vera Cruz (vĕr´_å_ krōōz), 91 Victoria (vĭk-tō´rĭ-_å_) Falls, 132 Virginia (vĭr-jĭn´ĭ-_å_) Company, 146 W

War for Independence, 195 Washington (wôsh´ĭng-tŭn), George, 193, 224, 296-301 Waterloo (wô´tḛr-lōō´), battle of, 71 Wayne (wān), General “Mad” Anthony, 250 Webster (wĕb´stḛr), Daniel, 308, 320-327 West, Benjamin, 271 Westminster Abbey, 136 West Point, 336 Military Academy, 342 Whitney (hwĭt´nĭ), Eli, 266, 269 William and Mary College, 310 William of Normandy, 42-47 William the Conqueror, 45 Williams, Roger, 176-180 Winthrop, Governor John, 170-175 witan (wĭt´ăn), 44 Wolfe (wŭlf), General James, 227 Wolf-hearted John, 47 wooden horse, (see _Trojan horse_) Y

Yale (yāl) College, 194, 266, 274 Z

Zambesi (zåm-bā´z*e) River, 131 Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: within a few miles of Jersualem=> within a few miles of Jerusalem {pg 50} We mutally pledge=> We mutually pledge {pg 313} Gama (gä´mä), Vascoda, 84=> Gama (gä´mä), Vasco da, 84 {pg 374} Gilbraltar (jī-brâl´tēr), 152=> Gibraltar (jī-brâl´tēr), 152 {pg 374} Alciun (*al´sĭ-ŭn), 33=> Alcuin (*al´sĭ-ŭn), 33 {pg 373} End of Project Gutenberg's Hero Tales from History, by Smith Burnham *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HERO TALES FROM HISTORY *** Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be renamed.

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