America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

Captain Molly Pitcher

2 pages in this part of America First.

Captain Molly Pitcher

The British had left Philadelphia, and were in full retreat across Jersey on their way to New York. Washington was right behind them, the…

Captain Molly Pitcher: Marion

General Gates gave no welcome to this ragged soldiery, and, when Marion modestly offered some advice about the best methods of dealing with…

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