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Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: American-Irish Historical Society
Subjects: American-Irish Historical Society Irish Americans Ethnology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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ave freely of their time and resourcesthat this monument and park should be erected, deserves agrateful place in the memory of the present and succeedinggenerations. People such as these make city and nation patri-otic and great. They are the backbone, the rock to and uponwhich the nation must anchor, for they have placed the love ofpatriotism above the love of gold; the love of country above thesordid gain of the passing moment. If you were to follow the winding course of the river in thevalley below us down through the mountains and valleys, throughPennsylvania to Easton, and the course of the Susquehannato Otsego Lake and peer through the dim past of one hundredand thirty-three years, you would there find assembled as braveand as peerless an army as ever began a march or fought a battle.Thirty-five hundred Americans, under Sullivan, Clinton andPoor, moved westward to devastate the country and subjugatethe people of the Long House. Their strong arms and mighty muscles hewed down the
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TABLETS ON NEWTOWN BATTLEFIELD MONUMENT, Elmira, New York. Reproduction by Anna Frances Levins FIELD DAY, 1Q12. 217 trees and cut roads through the primeval forests, while theirbrave hearts defied the treachery of the Indians and the horrorsof starvation. That brave army knew no fear and took no restuntil here in the fields below us, on the 29th of August, 1779,they met the savage Iroquois and the cruel Tory on the fieldof battle, and when the evening sun set over the west hill onthat eventful day, the camp fires of the American army blazedand the American flag waved in triumph on this hill top and theBattle of Newtown went down in history won by the Americanpeople. Such was the Battle of Newtown, and such were the trialsand experiences of the forefathers and settlers of this valley.The descendants of those brave and loyal men have no reasonto be ashamed of their ancestry who fought to establish hereAmerican principles and American institutions. Nor of thatancestry who left their safe

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