12) Canada. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...battle of the entire struggle took place in 1759, when Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, bringing about the fall of Quebec to the British. Montreal...

13) New York, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Long Island (see Long Island, battle of) and the succeeding actions at Harlem Heights and White Plains, Washington gave up New York, and the British occupied the...

14) Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 1. Character of the New Nation. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
...and idea, and it was his fate to give a new and unshakable confidence to its aspiration at the Battle of New Orleans. Thereafter all doubts began to die out; the...

15) 19. Chaos (1870). Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams
...only to violence, as a soldier sabred in battle. For many thousands of years, on these hills and plains, Nature had gone on sabring men and women with the same air...

16) New York, state, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the battle of Long Island, as he did the succeeding actions at Harlem Heights (Sept. 16) and White Plains (Oct. 28). 19The British invested New York City and held...

17) National Parks and Monuments (table). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...home of the playwright.Ford's TheatreHSWashington, D.C.1970.29 (.12)Site of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and death; includes the Lincoln Museum.Fort...

18) Kentucky, state, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...member of the commission that bought it from the Chickasaw in 1818). Consisting of floodplains and rolling uplands, it is among the largest migratory bird flyways...

19) Kentucky. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...member of the commission that bought it from the Chickasaw in 1818). Consisting of flood plains, some less than 250 ft/76 m above sea level, and rolling uplands,...

20) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving, Washington. 1917. Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Vol. X, Part 2. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...shall be nameless, being too rich a mynheer to be lightly mentioned, who, in the battle of White-plains, being an excellent master of defence, parried a musket ball...