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1789.
1797.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The King of Eng-land, "George the Third," had made
hard rules and bad laws for those who had left his
land and come to A-mer-i-ca.
The folks bore these as well as they could but things grew worse and worse.
At last the men said; "We will die or be free."
Then came a war. There were but few, at first, to fight
