American homes and gardens (1905) (14802534063)

Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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of picked veterans, seven thou- sand strong. He arrived at Yorktown five days later, but,finding the capitulation had already taken place, sailed backagain to New York and despatched the news of the catas-trophe to England. The significance of the event was well expressed by LordNorth, when the news reached him, for he threw his armswildly in the air and exclaimed, It is all over! It is all over! Note.—The various objects reproduced in facsimile in connection with thisarticle form part of a collection of Revolutionary material belonging to a privatecollector in New York. It may be of interest to note that on the same shelf withthe book illustrated above, from Washingtons Library, is a copy of Sir H.Clintons Narrative, from his library and bearing his autograph. The Controversy between the two British leaders was of the most venomouscharacter, and as a study of invective nothing could be more illuminating than aperusal of the Reply of Lord Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clintons Narrative.
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Nelson House, the Residence of Governor Thomas Nelson of Virginia, Who Commanded the Virginia Militia at the Siege and Directed the Fire ofthe Gunners at His Own Mansion Under the Supposition that it Was Lord Comwalliss Headquarters 176 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS September, 1906 A New Apple-Tree Pest in California By Enos Brown