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Title: The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew
Condition: New
Author: Rebecca C. Jones
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0870334409
EAN: 9780870334405
ISBN: 9780870334405
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Genre: Children's Reference
Release Date: 08/07/2009
Description: Young Caroline Pickersgill lives with her mother and grandmother in Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Pickersgill, a widow, supports herself and her daughter by making flags for the ships that sail into the city. Some soldiers from Fort McHenry come to her to order the biggest and best flag in the world, and Caroline helps make it. When the British sail up the Chesapeake Bay to destroy Baltimore during the War of 1812, the defenders at the fort beat them back. After the British sail away the next day, the flag “gallantly streaming” over the fort is the one Caroline and her mother had sewn. By “the dawn’s early light,” Francis Scott Key saw it waving “o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Here is a charming (and true) children’s story about a young girl who, in helping her widowed mother, became a part of our nation’s history.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Width: 8mm
Item Weight: 68g
Release Year: 2009

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