The Glorious Shannon's Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Glorious Shannon's Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame We should be better, as a nation, for more of the rugged eloquence of the unnamed patriots of fifty years ago Who penned for the Public School Readers those immortal stories of the war of 1812, The Battle of Q'ueenston Heights, and The Chesapeake and the Shannon. Viewed not as a year but as an epoch, 1812 was an Homeric period. Nelson had gone from the seas, but his spirit breathed in every powder-monkey and every post-captain. The earth trembled to the battle tread of the armies of Wellington and Napoleon. It was a large time, an epic age, and not inarticulate. Its war cries even now ring louder than the tumult and the shouting of the infinitely greater con¿ict of 1914-1918. There were so many things to remember in the late war that the world is rapidly forgetting. We were to Remember Liege! And Remember Louvain! And Remember the Lusitania! We do well to remember them, but the words of the war-cries even now are fad ing from our minds. Of all the battle-cries of the Great War the one most likely to survive is the They shall not pass! Of the French at Verdun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.