500 Little-Known Facts in U.S. History

The more we know about the past, the better we understand the present.

Did you know?

• That Pocahontas wasn’t the only daughter of Chief Powhatan to be courted by an English explorer?

• How dead English soldiers took revenge on a tribe of Indians that massacred two thousand unarmed English prisoners?

• The name of the woman patriot who rode five times as far as Paul Revere on the same kind of mission?

• Which two former presidents died fifty years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

• What Abraham Lincoln’s last words were just before he was assassinated at Ford’s Theater?

• The name of the president who introduced sexual shenanigans into the White House long before Bill Clinton arrived?

• That the military mounted dummy cannons, known as 'Quaker guns,' to protect the White House during World War II?

In this entertaining and enlightening book, you’ll learn little-known facts from America’s colorful past that you’ll never forget!

From the author of 500 Little-Known Facts in Mormon History and 500 More Little-Known Facts in Mormon History.

Purchase  your own copy today from Cumorah Books & Gifts.

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