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and increased, with various colorful accounts over the years.
    Strangest of all, Daniel Boone features in the classic poem Don Juan by Lord Byron. In the epic satire composed from 1819 to 1824, Byron wrote seven stanzas about “natural man” living simply in the wilderness:
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    Of the great names which in our faces stare,
    The General Boone, back-woodsman of Kentucky,
    Was happiest amongst mortals anywhere;
    For killing nothing but a bear or buck, he
    Enjoyed the lonely, vigorous, harmless days
    Of his old age in wilds of deepest maze.
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    James Fenimore Cooper published the first Hawkeye tales in 1823, and a romantic account of Boone’s life by Timothy Flint, Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky, was released in 1833. Many more fiction and factual accounts followed, while Theodore Roosevelt founded the conservationist Boone and Crockett Club in 1887. A half-dollar coin was minted in 1934 to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth.
    The remains of Daniel and Rebecca Boone were moved from Tuque Creek, Missouri, to Frankfort Cemetery, Kentucky, in 1845.This has caused some resentment in Missouri, giving rise to another story—that the wrong bodies were removed, a mistake caused by the graves being left unmarked for some fifteen years. Daniel Boone’s own words make a suitable comment: “With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.”
    Recommended
    The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke by John Filson
    The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Faragher Daniel Boone Homestead, Reading, Pennsylvania

The Few
    The Royal Air Force Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain
    T here were: 2,340 British, 32 Australians, 112 Canadians, 1 Jamaican, 127 New Zealanders, 3 Rhodesians, and 25 South Africans. In addition, there were 9 Americans, 28 Belgians, 89 Czechoslovakians, 13 French, 145 Polish, and 10 from the Republic of Ireland. They were the men and women of Royal Air Force Fighter Command, and they fought the most famous air battle of them all—the battle of Britain.
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    By the end of June 1940, the United Kingdom stood alone against Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France. The Czechs were conscripted into Nazi forces, while Vichy French forces fought with Germany until 1943 against Britain in the Middle East and North and West Africa. French spies around the world reported to Germany and Japan until they were captured, while in Southeast Asia the French agreed to Japan taking control of French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos).
    From Norway to the Pyrenees, all of western and central Europe was Nazi-controlled, with enemy radio interception and spy networks operating in neutral Spain and Ireland. In the north, Sweden supplied the Nazis with steel and other metals. In the east, Russia, Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans supplied oil, coal, and food. In the south, Fascist Italy joined Germany and opened two more fronts against Britain in North and East Africa. At sea, German submarinesand surface raiders attacked unprotected British convoys, the escorts having been withdrawn to defend Britain against invasion.
    The German victory in Europe had been so fast that no plans had been prepared for an invasion of Britain. In July that was remedied with Hitler’s War Directive 16, which stated: “As England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, still shows no signs of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare, and if necessary to carry out, a landing operation against her. The aim of this operation is to eliminate the English Motherland.”
    For a German invasion to be possible, the Royal Navy had to be pushed out of the eastern English Channel, at least temporarily. To do that, Germany needed command of the air so that its formidable and experienced bomber and dive-bomber squadrons could knock out the navy. For command of the air, Royal Air Force Fighter Command