500 Little-Known Facts in U.S. History

By George Givens

Book Overview

The more we know about the past, the better we understand the present. Do you know? - That Pocahontas wasn't the only daughter of Chief Powhatan to be courted by an English explorer? - How dead English soldiers took revenge on a tribe of Indians that massacred two thousand unarmed English prisoners? - the name of the woman patriot who rode five times as far as Paul Revere on the same kind of mission? - Which two former presidents died fifty years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence? - What Abraham Lincoln's last words were just before he was assassinated at Ford's Theater? - the name of the president who introduced sexual shenanigans into the White House long before Bill Clinton arrived? - That the military mounted dummy cannons, known as Quaker guns, to protect the White House during World War II? In this entertaining and enlightening book, you'll learn little-known facts from America's colorful past that you'll never forget

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555179479
• ISBN13: 9781555179472
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cedar Fort
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.8"