AN   ALPHABET   OF   HISTORICAL   TEDDY BEARS
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"B is for ..... BUNKER HILL (actually the battle of Breed's Hill)  The British are trying to take the fort for the third time, two previous attempts having been beaten back by the Americans. 

 

"C is for .... Caesar and Cleopatra.  Here we find Cleopatra, the Princess of Egypt, attended by servants, and the Gods Anubis, Bast, and Tauret, greeting the roman general Julius Caesar and his troops.

" E is for .... ELIZABETH the First, Queen of England.  Here she is at her palace of Hampton Court, with Sir Walter Raleigh and other members of her royal household.  During her reign, England entered an age of great exploration, music, art and literature.

 

"H is for .... HENRY the VIII of England, seen here with his six wives, from left to right, Katherine of Aragon, Ann Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr.  Unlike our Henry, the real Henry did not have all his wives at once.  (His wives might have been happier if he had, considering that two of them were beheaded.) 

"J is for .... JAMESTOWN, founded in 1607.  Here we see Cpt. Christopher Newport, with Cpt. John Smith beside him, directing the settlers building the fort.  Two Native Americans are watching them from the woods. 

 

"K is for .... KITTYHAWK, where on Dec. 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew the first powered, manned, and controlled aircraft.  Here we see Orville in the plane, while Wilbur and two members of the U.S. Life Saving Station watch the historic flight.

 "P is for.... Pony Express.  From April 3, 1860, fast horses and riders delivered the mail from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, CA and back again, until the Pacific telegraph was completed, ending the Pony Express, Nov. 18, 1861.

"R is for .... the ROUGH RIDERS, led by Theodore Roosevelt, in their famous charge up San Juan Hill.  However, due to lack of space on the troop transport, the horses got left in Florida, so the soldiers ended up walking instead of riding.

"U is for .... UNCLE SAM.  During the War of 1812, an inquiry into the letters "U.S" on government property was explained as standing for "Uncle Sam" the government inspector.  Since then, "Uncle Sam" has come to symbolize the United States.  Here he is as the famous WWI recruiting poster by J.M. Flagg.

"W is for .... WASHINGTON, who on Christmas night, 1776, crossed the Delaware River and defeated three regiments of Hessian soldiers, at the Battle of Trenton, capturing 868 officers and men.  Not one American soldier was killed.

"X is for .... XANADU, the fabled city of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China.  Here he is in his throne room, surrounded by his guards and court, greeting Marco Polo of Venice.

"Y is for.... Yorktown, where on Oct. 19, 1781, the British army, under Gen. Cornwallis, surrendered to the combined American-French forces led by Gen. Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau.  Here the British second-in-command, Brig. O'Hara, surrenders to the American second-in-command, Maj.Gen.  Lincoln, as Cornwallis was too "sick" to attend.