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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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       ILLUSTRATIONS.

       THE STORY OF THE NEGRO FORT.

       A WAR FOR AN ARCHBISHOP.

       THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS.

       THE CANOE FIGHT.

       THE BATTLE OF LAKE BORGNE.

       THE BATTLE IN THE DARK.

       THE TROUBLESOME BURGHERS.

       THE DEFENCE OF ROCHELLE.

       THE SAD STORY OF A BOY KING.

       TWO OBSCURE HEROES.

       THE CHARGE OF THE HOUNDS.

       THE STORY OF A WINTER CAMPAIGN.

       YOUNG WASHINGTON IN THE WOODS.

       THE STORY OF CATHERINE.

       THE VIRGINIA WIFE-MARKET.

       THE BOYHOOD OF DANIEL WEBSTER. [A]

       THE SCULLION WHO BECAME A SCULPTOR.

       THE BOYHOOD OF WILLIAM CHAMBERS.

       HOW A BOY WAS HIRED OUT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.

       THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

       A PRINCE WHO WOULD NOT STAY DEAD.

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THE STORY OF THE NEGRO FORT.

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      During the war of 1812–14, between Great Britain and the United States, the weak Spanish Governor of Florida—for Florida was then Spanish territory—permitted the British to make Pensacola their base of operations against us. This was a gross outrage, as we were at peace with Spain at the time, and General Jackson, acting on his own responsibility, invaded Florida in retaliation.

      Among the British at that time was an eccentric Irish officer, Colonel Edward Nichols, who enlisted and tried to make soldiers of a large number of the Seminole Indians. In 1815, after the war was over, Colonel Nichols again visited the Seminoles, who were disposed to be hostile to the United States, as Colonel Nichols himself was, and made an astonishing treaty with them, in which an alliance, offensive and defensive, between Great Britain and the Seminoles, was agreed upon. We had made peace with Great Britain a few months before, and yet this ridiculous Irish colonel signed a treaty binding Great Britain to fight us whenever the Seminoles in the Spanish territory of Florida should see fit to make a war! If this extraordinary performance had been all, it would not have mattered so much, for the British government refused to ratify the treaty; but it was not all. Colonel Nichols, as if determined to give us as much trouble as he could, built a strong fortress on the Appalachicola River, and gave it to his friends the Seminoles, naming it "The British Post on the Appalachicola," where the British had not the least right to have any post whatever. Situated on a high bluff, with

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