The original etext for this book was prepared by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team for Project Gutenberg. The text was edited and formatting was added by Lisa Ripperton, using as copytext, Heroes Every Child Should Know, edited by H. W. Mabie, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908.

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