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...Past. Cavalryman Patton gallops along in a tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...
...Delano Roosevelt, senior warden of St. James's Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, N.Y., was presented with a 120-year-old family Bible, once owned by the second wife of his maternal great-grandfather, Warren Delano. It was found in the attic of the old Delano house in New Bedford, Mass...
Roly-poly, voluble Jean François Pouliot loves to talk & talk. Like his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him, he is a member of the House of Commons. He once talked Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett into giving his home town (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) a new railroad station. Another time he talked his party (Liberal) into building a dock on an unnavigable stream. In four sessions he addressed Parliament 471 times...
...Bedford Village was the last outpost of the frontier. Two thousand settlers crowded under the walls of its fort. Around the village in every direction "stretched the illimitable forest," murder-haunted and mysterious, and green as shoal water, through which the Indians glided like sharks through reefs. Most of the action in the novel results from Indian troubles intensified by the French-British wars in Europe, the fact that the Bedford garrison was mutinous, and that the Quaker legislature in Philadelphia would not appropriate funds to fight the redskins...
...Captain Jack undertook to save Bedford Village and the Pennsylvania frontier. His forces: seven men. His strategy: to attack, surprise, ambush the Indian war parties over as great a territory as possible to give the impression his seven men were a battalion. As savage as the savages, the seven almost succeeded...