Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes
Remember the White Knight.
Stewart, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society. Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
The line was a quotation from Chaucer.
Federal authorities had jailed Glover pending his return to his Missouri owner. A local Wisconsin judge issued an order for Glover’s release on the grounds that slavery was illegal in Wisconsin and he was entitled to freedom. The Federal authorities refused to release the escapee. The Wisconsin mob then stormed the jail and broke Glover out. Glover was helped to get to Canada and final freedom by the people of Wisconsin, but Booth was prosecuted and convicted under the Fugitive Slave Act. He was later pardoned. See {587921}.
In 1827 John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson were potential presidential rivals. Many people and newspapers were openly critical of Jackson since his wife Rachel did not have a finalized divorce when the Jacksons were married. Jackson supporters started 'retaliating' with the story that Adams and his wife had engaged in pre-marital sexual relations. Jackson stopped this.
The Germans and Americans did this as a standard practice. The French “history” to which the General referred did not involve machine guns and mortars. The entrenching tool (shovel) was a fundamentally important piece of equipment to the Germans and Americans but not the French at the beginning of WWI. Later in the war, the French finally learned.
Trenton Lee Stewart (born 1970) is an American author best known for the Mysterious Benedict Society series. Stewart is a graduate of Hendrix College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
