Pictorial History of America, from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Mexican War ...J. B. Smith & Company, 1857 |
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... nearly surrounded by British ships of war and transports , their operations were only first disclosed to the astonished army of Britain by the dispersion of the nocturnal darkness under whose shade they had been conducted . At break of ...
... nearly surrounded by British ships of war and transports , their operations were only first disclosed to the astonished army of Britain by the dispersion of the nocturnal darkness under whose shade they had been conducted . At break of ...
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... nearly mechanical , to the sternest restraint of absolute authority . In many of the regiments the officers had been elected by their troops , whose suffrages too often were gained by a show of enthusiastic confidence which was mis ...
... nearly mechanical , to the sternest restraint of absolute authority . In many of the regiments the officers had been elected by their troops , whose suffrages too often were gained by a show of enthusiastic confidence which was mis ...
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... nearly destitute . While the siege of St. John's was pending , Colonel Allen , who was returning with about eighty men from a tour on which he had been sent by his general , was captured by the British near Montreal , loaded with irons ...
... nearly destitute . While the siege of St. John's was pending , Colonel Allen , who was returning with about eighty men from a tour on which he had been sent by his general , was captured by the British near Montreal , loaded with irons ...
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... nearly the same con- dition . To retreat in face of an enemy is at all times hazardous ; but on this occasion it was attended with an unusual proportion of embarrassments . General Sullivan , who conducted the retreat , nevertheless ...
... nearly the same con- dition . To retreat in face of an enemy is at all times hazardous ; but on this occasion it was attended with an unusual proportion of embarrassments . General Sullivan , who conducted the retreat , nevertheless ...
الصفحة 48
... nearly ready for launching at the same time . The fleet was put under the command of General Arnold , and he was instructed by General Gates to proceed beyond Crown Point , down Lake Champlain , to the Split Rock ; but most peremptorily ...
... nearly ready for launching at the same time . The fleet was put under the command of General Arnold , and he was instructed by General Gates to proceed beyond Crown Point , down Lake Champlain , to the Split Rock ; but most peremptorily ...
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action American army appointed arms arrived artillery attack battery battle Bon Homme Richard brigade Britain British British army Burgoyne camp campaign Captain captured carronades cavalry Charleston Colonel colonies command commenced Commodore conduct Congress Count D'Estaing declared defence despatched detachment effect enemy enemy's engaged favour fire fleet force four France French frigate gallant garrison governor guns honour hundred immediately independence Indians infantry inhabitants Island killed land letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-colonel Lord Cornwallis Lord Rawdon loss Major Matamoras ment Mexican Mexico miles military militia morning nation night o'clock officers opposition party Point Isabel position possession President prisoners rear received regiment retired retreat river royal army sail Santa Anna sent ship shot Sir Henry Clinton soldiers soon South Carolina squadron success surrender Taylor thousand tion took town treaty troops United Vera Cruz vessels victory Washington whole wounded York
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الصفحة 75 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
الصفحة 608 - Resolved, That our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the re-occupation of Oregon and the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union.
الصفحة 390 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
الصفحة 367 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor?
الصفحة 86 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses; to borrow money, or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half year to the respective states an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state...
الصفحة 75 - In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
الصفحة 545 - Confiance one hundred and five. The enemy's shot passed principally just over our heads, as there were not twenty whole hammocks in the nettings at the close of the action, which lasted, without intermission, two hours and twenty minutes.
الصفحة 298 - ... we love and respect you, but if you fire you are a dead man." "We are not going to the enemy, on the contrary, if they were now to come out, you should see us fight under your orders with as much alacrity as ever; but we will be no longer amused, we are determined on obtaining what is our just due.
الصفحة 74 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
الصفحة 65 - ... members, to confer with his Lordship in their private Characters, but that, ever desirous of establishing peace, on reasonable terms, they will send a Committee of their body, to know whether he has any Authority to treat with persons, authorized by Congress for that purpose in behalf of America, and what that Authority is, and to hear such propositions as he shall think fit to make respecting the same...