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American Leaders and Heroes

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American Leaders and Heroes

by Wilbur F. Gordy

English· 06:20:52· 27 chapters
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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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface

    04:16
  2. Chapter 2

    Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506

    22:12
  3. Chapter 3

    Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542

    10:47
  4. Chapter 4

    Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618

    13:26
  5. Chapter 5

    John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631

    14:48
  6. Chapter 6

    Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676

    10:03
  7. Chapter 7

    Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656

    21:02
  8. Chapter 8

    Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683

    10:15
  9. Chapter 9

    William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718

    13:26
  10. Chapter 10

    Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687

    15:06
  11. Chapter 11

    George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799

    22:58
  12. Chapter 12

    James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759

    10:27
  13. Chapter 13

    Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799

    12:51
  14. Chapter 14

    Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803

    09:23
  15. Chapter 15

    Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818

    11:52
  16. Chapter 16

    Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790

    15:31
  17. Chapter 17

    George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799

    25:37
  18. Chapter 18

    Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786

    12:37
  19. Chapter 19

    Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820

    13:29
  20. Chapter 20

    Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826

    12:48
  21. Chapter 21

    Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815

    10:05
  22. Chapter 22

    Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845

    12:37
  23. Chapter 23

    Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852

    12:36
  24. Chapter 24

    Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872

    12:34
  25. Chapter 25

    Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865

    22:14
  26. Chapter 26

    Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885

    13:13
  27. Chapter 27

    Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899

    14:39