Centennial Commemoration Of The Burning Of Fairfield Connecticut By The British Troops Under Gover

Author : Fairfield Fairfield
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ISBN 13 : 9781331129776
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book 1779-1879, Centennial Commemoration of the Burning of Fairfield, Connecticut written by Fairfield Fairfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Centennial Commemoration of the Burning of Fairfield, Connecticut by the British Troops Under Governor Tryon: July 8th, 1779 The mind of our time is becoming decidedly historical, and the idea is gaining ground that in the study of man, as of nature, the knowledge of facts is the best way to ascertain principles and to order conduct. We Americans are entering generously into this movement. With us, in our literary career, history has come in advance of poetry, and, of late, the whole nation has formed itself into a history class, and for three years our people have been reading together their Centennial records, and are to keep it up for four years to come, until the festival of peace in 1883. As a nation we celebrated the great Centennial of 1876, and each town has been earnest to add its own testimony to whatever has been important in its own annals. The people of the old Town of Fairfield joined with the whole country in that jubilee, and in due time, Fairfield makes this unpretending offering of its own local record to the common treasury of patriotism. We know very well that our most conspicuous date is not of a jubilant character, and that it notes not a victory, but a disaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.