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it came. France let one of her best young men, La-fay-ette, cross the sea and fight for our cause. This man stood high at home. He left all, his wife and friends, and cast his lot with ours.
A-mer-i-ca will love France to the end of time for what she did for us in our hour of need.
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CROSSING THE DELAWARE.
The forts on the shores of the Hud-son were what the Eng-lish then went to fight for. They got two of them, but Wash-ing-ton was in time to save the rest.
A new and most sad thing came then to make poor Wash-ing-ton's heart bleed, and the hearts of all in the land.
A man whose name was Ben-e-dict Ar-nold, was the cause of it. The Chief had put him in charge of the fort at West Point and the places on the line that the Brit-ish