Our Country: A Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Volumen3Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1878 |
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... flag by British cruisers ; and the press of Great Britain , taking its tone from the court , and interpreting the generous forbearance of the Americans as fear of British power , insolently declared that the Americans " could not be ...
... flag by British cruisers ; and the press of Great Britain , taking its tone from the court , and interpreting the generous forbearance of the Americans as fear of British power , insolently declared that the Americans " could not be ...
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... flag waiting while con- sidering what he should do . His whole effective force there did not exceed a thousand men - too few to withstand the enemy in open battle , but suffi- cient , his officers thought , to endure a long siege , for ...
... flag waiting while con- sidering what he should do . His whole effective force there did not exceed a thousand men - too few to withstand the enemy in open battle , but suffi- cient , his officers thought , to endure a long siege , for ...
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... , but fled down the hill , leading their horses at full gallop and followed by the dozen men who manned the battery . In a few minutes the American flag CHAP . VIII . CONFLICT ON QUEENSTOWN HEIGHTS . 1217 1216 BOOK V. OUR COUNTRY .
... , but fled down the hill , leading their horses at full gallop and followed by the dozen men who manned the battery . In a few minutes the American flag CHAP . VIII . CONFLICT ON QUEENSTOWN HEIGHTS . 1217 1216 BOOK V. OUR COUNTRY .
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... flag- ship ) overtook the British off Nantucket Shoals , on the 23d of June , and after a slight engagement with the Belvidera , and a chase of several hours , the pursuit was abandoned . The news of this affair , carried into Halifax ...
... flag- ship ) overtook the British off Nantucket Shoals , on the 23d of June , and after a slight engagement with the Belvidera , and a chase of several hours , the pursuit was abandoned . The news of this affair , carried into Halifax ...
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... flag at her mast - head bearing the significant words : Free Trade and Sailors ' Rights . Soon after leaving Sandy Hook , while sailing southward , the Essex captured several British merchant - vessels , and made trophy bonfires of them ...
... flag at her mast - head bearing the significant words : Free Trade and Sailors ' Rights . Soon after leaving Sandy Hook , while sailing southward , the Essex captured several British merchant - vessels , and made trophy bonfires of them ...
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afterward American appointed armed army attack Baltimore banks batteries battle British capital Captain captured cavalry CHAP Charleston chief citizens Civil Colonel command Commission Confederacy Confederates Congress Constitution Convention Davis declared elected enemy flag fled force Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pickens Fort Sumter free-labor garrison governor gun-boats guns harbor Harper's Ferry hundred Indians insurgents invaders Island Jackson Jefferson Davis Johnston Kentucky Lake Lake Ontario land latter leaders Legislature loyal March McClellan ment Mexicans Mexico miles military militia Mississippi Missouri morning movement National Government National troops naval navy North northern officers ordered Ordinance of Secession party peace Potomac President prisoners railway Republic Richmond River Sackett's Harbor secession Secessionists Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent Shenandoah Valley slave-labor slavery slaves soldiers soon South Carolina Southern squadron Sumter surrender Tennessee Territory thousand tion treaty Union United vessels victory Virginia vote Washington wounded York
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Página 1597 - And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Página 1846 - I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
Página 1800 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 1684 - April 9, 1865 GENERAL: — I received your note of this morning on the picket-line whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
Página 1461 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time, but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either.
Página 1431 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Página 1457 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and...
Página 1460 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 1415 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom...
Página 1714 - Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.