The battle of the kegs / Illustrated by Paul Galdone.
When the British held Philadelphia in 1778, Americans sent kegs of gunpowder down the Delaware River, apparently the first mines used that way. The kegs were built at the cooperage of Francis Hopkinson's father-in-law. The poem, which can be sung to "Yankee Doodle", effectively poked...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crowell,
[1964]
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Children's Nonfiction
| Call Number: |
811 .H797 1964 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |