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Christmas Gifts to the Nation From Washington to Barton
The piece recalls Christmas as a gift from history, highlighting Washington's Delaware crossing victory in 1776, his 1777 Valley Forge hardships, the 1783 farewell at Mount Vernon, and the memorial gift of the Washington Monument. It also mentions the 1814 Ghent peace, Kit Carson and Clara Barton as later Christmas markers, tying these events to national memory and tribute.
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McConkey
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New Jersey
Canada
Newport
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New England
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Lord Cornwallia
England
Thomas Paine
Ball
Cornwallis
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Hfe
Valley Forge
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Ghls Chronicle
George Washington
Fraunces Tavern
New York City
Statehouse
Annapolis
Continental Congress
Continental Army
John Fitzpatrick
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Mount Vernon
Benjamin Walker
David Cobb
David Umphreys
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Tor
John Marshall
United States
House of Representatives
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Johan Marshall
Supreme Court of the United States
National Monument Society
Congress
Ghent
Russia
Great Britain
France
South Carolina
Madison
James Beyard
Albert Gallatin
John Quincy Adams
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Belgium
Jonathan Russell
Henry Clay
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Gallatin
America
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Newfoundland
Lindsey Carson
Madison County
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Stanley Vestal
Christopher Carson
Kit Carson
Fremont
Barton
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Father Tarton
Anthony" Warne
Clara Barton
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Geneva
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Red Cross Society
Arthur
Michigan
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Johnstown
American Red Cross