The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Washington Peace Carillon
Title: The Washington Peace Carillon
Author: James Marion Shull
Release date: August 28, 2020 [eBook #63068]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Jessica Hope
The Washington Peace Carillon
A Brochure Issued by Lovers of the Bells and Dedicated to Others of Their Kind. Done in the Interest of a Greater Washington.
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Whose carillon of 52 bells has given joy to many thousands. In December, 1814, these bells rang out at the signing of the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, and but for the outbreak of the great war, would in 1914 have celebrated the completion of a hundred years of unbroken peace between the two nations.