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.

Mad Anthony Captures Stony Point

3 pages in this part of America First.

Mad Anthony Captures Stony Point

Anthony Wayne was about thirty years old.

Mad Anthony Captures Stony Point: Wayne

Washington decided to attack Stony Point, and chose "Mad Anthony" for the purpose. He rode out, one day, to look over the situation. "There…

Mad Anthony Captures Stony Point: Patriots

But "Mad Anthony" was to lead the charge, and Patriots were his soldiers.

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