Who commanded the British soldiers in Boston?  What did he do?  What about Paul Revere?  What did Captain Parker of Lexington say to his men?  What happened at Lexington and at Concord?  Tell about the battle of Bunker Hill.  What did many Englishmen refuse to do?  Where was Colonel Washington living?  What did Congress do?  Where did Washington take command of the army?  Tell about the sharpshooters.  Tell about the march to Canada.  How did Washington take Boston?  Where did the British go?  Where did Washington go?  What did Congress do on July 4th, 1776?  What happened in New York?  What about the battle of Long Island?  What did Cornwallis do?  Tell about the victory at Trenton.  What happened at Princeton?  What city did the British take?  Where was Washington’s army?  What happened at Saratoga?  What did the king of France do?  What happened at the south?  Tell about Sergeant Jasper.  What is said about General Greene?  What did Cornwallis do?  Where did he go?  What is said about Benedict Arnold?  What about Lafayette?  Where did Cornwallis shut himself up with his army?  What did Washington do?  Tell about the surrender of Cornwallis.  How was the news carried to Philadelphia?  What is said of Lord Fairfax?  How long had the war lasted?  What was done at New York?  What is said of General Washington after the war?  Tell how he was made President.  What happened when he died?  What is said of Lafayette?

DANIEL BOONE
(1734-1820).

146.  Daniel Boone; what the hunters of the west did; Boone’s life in North Carolina.—­Before Washington began to fight the battles of the Revolution in the east, Daniel Boone and other famous hunters were fighting bears and Indians in what was then called the west.  By that war in the woods, these brave and hardy men helped us to get possession of that part of the country.

Daniel Boone was born in Pennsylvania.[1] His father moved to North Carolina,[2] and Daniel helped him cut down the trees round their log cabin in the forest.  He ploughed the land, which was thick with stumps, hoed the corn that grew up among those stumps, and then,—­as there was no mill near,—­he pounded it into meal for “johnny-cake.”  He learned how to handle a gun quite as soon as he did a hoe.  The unfortunate deer or coon that saw young Boone coming toward him knew that he had seen his best days, and that he would soon have the whole Boone family sitting round him at the dinner-table.

[Illustration:  BOONE POUNDING CORN.]

[Footnote 1:  He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.]

[Footnote 2:  He settled near Wilkesboro, on the banks of the Yadkin River.  See map in paragraph 150.]

147.  Boone’s wanderings in the western forests; his bear tree.—­When Daniel had grown to manhood, he wandered off with his gun on his shoulder, and crossing the mountains, entered what is now the state of Tennessee.  That whole country was then a wilderness, full of savage beasts and still more savage Indians; and Boone had many a sharp fight with both.