Crossword-Solution: RIDDER 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Nothing further can be discovered till 1718, when the book appears to have become the property of Monsieur de Ridder, a Dutchman, who presented it to the University of Utrecht where it still remains.* Sir Robert Cotton's signature is on the first page.

Let us stand together against these invaders, as our forefathers stood at Lexington and Bunker Hill!” During the cheers that followed this harangue, my attention was drawn to an agitated group on the platform, the central figure being Bernard Ridder, recognised leader of the large German-American population of New York City that had remained staunchly loyal in the crisis.

Most admirable was the behaviour of the great body of German-Americans; in fact it was a German-American branch of the American Defence Society, financed in America, that started the beautiful custom, which became universal, of wearing patriotic buttons bearing the sacred words: _“The Union! The Flag!”_ “It was one thing,” wrote Bernard Ridder in the Chicago _Staats-Zeitung_, “for German-Americans to side with Germany in the great European war (1914-1919) when only our sympathies were involved.