Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS 1. At Ridgefield, Arnold attempted to check Tryon on his Connecticut raid, in 1777. There a horse was shot under him, and while he was struggling to release himself from the stirrups, a tory from New Fairfield, named Coon, advanced arid called to him, " Surrender !" "Not yet," was Arnold's reply as he extricated himself, drew a pistol, shot the tory, and sprang into the woods amid a storm of bullets. 2. Colonel Trumbull. In Sullivan's skirmishes with the British in Rhode Island, he wore a white handkerchief tied around his head all day, the wind having blown off his hat in the morning at a time when it was not safe to dismount for it. 3. Herkimer was sent to relieve Fort Stanwix, besieged by St. Leger. He fell into an ambuscade, his horse was shot under him, and he himself was fatally wounded. Seated on his saddle at the foot of a tree overlooking the battlefield, he continued to give orders while he calmly smoked his pipe. 4. Richard Vines. The gateway is Crawford Notch, at the head of Saco River, through which so many were led into Canadian captivity. 5. Miles Standish, first military officer of a colonial army. 6. Andrew Bee, first man to lay hands on Jefferson Davis and demand his surrender. 7. Tyler,—Tylerize. 8. Anne Hutchinson. 9. Nat Turner, leader of Southampton slave insurrection, 1831. 10. La Fayette. 11. John Alden and Mary Chilton. 12. Clay, Calhoun, and Webster. 13. Governor Winthrop ; Boston was called "Tre- mont," from its three hills (trois monts) then existing. John Winthrop, son of the governor, founded Say- brook. 14. Brigham Young. 15. Alexander Hamilton, born on the island of Nevis, in the West Indies. Webster said of him : "He touched the dead corpse of public credit,...