Alfred Bishop MasonBesprekingen
Auteur van Tom Strong, Washington's Scout: A Story of Patrotism
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It was a new country... It had been born and baptised only the month before. Sometimes it was called "The Colonies." Sometimes across the angry ocean angry men in England called its folk "the American rebels." But the English flag had come down in 1775, as the Dutch flag came down in 1664. Instead there fluttered from the flag-staff a strange bit of bunting, which showed a rattlesnake coiled in a circle, with the motto "Don't Tread On Me." This new standard had been shown in the trenches about Boston the year before. Now it hissed its motto to the winds that blew over Battery Park. And when our story begins, it was flying over the rude breastworks of the American army, breastworks of logs and rails and earth and hay, beyond the tiny village of Brooklyn. Washington was there, facing with grim but hopeless defiance a great British army, which had landed from the British fleet that lay in the Bay, and which proposed to crush the rebellion by routing and capturing that hastily-gathered, poorly-clothed, worse-fed, half-armed mob...