APPENDIX 



French Aid in the Revolution 



A volume published lu Paris iu 1903, entitled Les Combattants Franqais 

 de la Guerre Americaine gives a full list of French officers, sailors and ves- 

 sels engaged in the War of the Revolution, together with a list of the 

 officers and men who aided the Array. There were sixty-two vessels 

 armed, manned and equipped by France in aid of the American colonies, 

 and there were thirteen regiments of soldiers. Both vessels and troops 

 were officered by Frenchmen. 



The Artist Durand 

 The Durand family of New Jersey, which numbered several members 

 who took rank among the remarkably skillful American mechanicians 

 and artists, was descended from Huguenots who came to this country 

 early in the eighteenth century. The two members best known were 

 Cyrus Durand, who became a silversmith, and later engaged in the con- 

 struction of machinery during the period prior to the War of 1812 ; and 

 Asher Brown Durand, who began as engraver, and became a painter of 

 distinction. He was called " one of the fathers of American landscape," 

 having for nearly fifty years devoted himself to landscape painting. He 

 produced the best known engraving in the United States, that of John 

 Trumbull's famous painting of "The Declaration of Independence." 

 His portraits of Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, James Madison, 

 Edward Everett, and Bryant were also notable. He lived to be ninety. 

 He died in South Orange in 1886. 



Judge Tourgee 

 A Huguenot descendant who won more than ordinary distinction as an 

 author and patriot was Judge Albion W. Tourgee, whose book of the re- 

 construction period, A Fool's Errand, had a sale of more than 200,000 

 copies, unprecedented in that day. As bearing on the race problem, 

 the KuKlux Klan, and the difficulties of sectionalism, it produced a pro- 

 found effect. Judge Tourgee served in the army, was severely wounded, 

 and never wholly recovered from the effects of campaign life. He was 

 appointed United States Consul at Halifax, and later at Bordeaux, 

 France, the land of his ancestors, where he died in 1905. 



Some Sentences from Thoreau's Diary 

 We must be at the helm at least once a day ; we must feel the tiller 

 rope in our hands, and know that if we sail, we steer, 



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