A veteran of the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 was boasting of his
lieutenant’s bravery when his wife sprung some unwelcome news upon him.byJoseph Boruwlaski
Tales from our cousins to the West, telling of their independence from Britain, their bloody civil war, their runaway prosperity, and the slender thread by which it hangs.
Two years into America’s Civil War, cotton workers in Manchester defied
current opinion among politicians and the press, and pledged their support to the Union.
On July 4th, 1776, a group of American colonists gathered in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, to present delegates of the Thirteen Colonies with a historic document.
John Adams, the second President of the USA, told army officers in
Massachusetts that the Constitution he had helped to draw up could not guarantee them liberty.
