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