Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diary of Lieutenant John Barker from 1774 to 1776: The British in Boston. This volume covers the daily life of the British troops during the siege of Boston and also gives accounts of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill...
...pictured as the king "who ever warred with freedom and the free," George Washington is remarkably acted by Arthur Dewey without undue exaggeration; and Samuel Adams and John Hancock are brought forth as the guiding spirits of the Northern Colonies. Paul Revere's ride and the Battle of Lexington are as vivid as screen art can make them. And finally, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the winter spent at Vally Forge picture the indomitable spirit of "America...
...that year Lieutenant John Barker wrote down for his own amusement his keenly critical observations of the famous events at Concords, Lexington, and Bunker Hill, his opinions, often expressed with biting sarcasm, of General Gage, Colonel Smith and Colonel Clark, and his caustic comments on Yankee and British general staffs alike. There by he provided a contemporary historical document of exceedingly great value...
Hugo Stinnes, Jr.: " At Lexington, Ky., I attended a horse race (Zev vs. In Memoriam). My host was Harry F. Sinclair, Chairman of the Board of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation and owner of the successful...
...Memorial Chapel to General Robert E. Lee will shortly command the campus of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. The Daughters of the Confederacy, donors, last week pronounced their gift " the tribute of Southern womanhood to the South's ideal hero...