The tea was dumped into Boston Harbour.

The Minute Men stood fast on the Common.

Mad Anthony Wayne stormed Stony Point.

Molly Stark's husband said, "There are the red-coats.

We must beat them today, or Molly Stark's a widow!" Cornwallis surrendered his sword at Yorktown.
Somebody in the Mexican War said, "Give them a little more grape, General Bragg!" and Dewey said: "You may fire when you're ready, Gridley!" In some of these events of the later years the writer had a personal share.