Stephen Girard
America's Colonial Olympian, 1750-1831| By: | James J. Raciti |
| Publisher: | Sunstone Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9781632930705 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781611393859 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his family’s tradition. In early summer, 1776, he landed in Phil