The age we live in: a history of the nineteenth century, Volumen3,Parte21882 |
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Página 250
... attack of Austria in the rear , as well as of the Turkish army in front . Five days after the delaration of war , Omar Pasha , the commander of the Ottoman forces , having secured and fortified Widdin , a town on the right bank of the ...
... attack of Austria in the rear , as well as of the Turkish army in front . Five days after the delaration of war , Omar Pasha , the commander of the Ottoman forces , having secured and fortified Widdin , a town on the right bank of the ...
Página 249
... attack Sebastopol - Landing of the Allies at Eupatoria - Battle of the Alma - The Flank March - State of Sebastopol - Objection of the French to an immediate assault - Arrangements for the protection of the French and British armies ...
... attack Sebastopol - Landing of the Allies at Eupatoria - Battle of the Alma - The Flank March - State of Sebastopol - Objection of the French to an immediate assault - Arrangements for the protection of the French and British armies ...
Página 250
... attack of Austria in the rear , as well as of the Turkish army in front . Five days after the delaration of war , Omar Pasha , the commander of the Ottoman forces , having secured and fortified Widdin , a town on the right bank of the ...
... attack of Austria in the rear , as well as of the Turkish army in front . Five days after the delaration of war , Omar Pasha , the commander of the Ottoman forces , having secured and fortified Widdin , a town on the right bank of the ...
Página 252
... attacks . A division of the French army , under General d'Espinasse , sent out into the Dobrudscha , was almost annihilated by the pestilence without meeting an enemy . The experiment was tried of sending some of the ships to sea , in ...
... attacks . A division of the French army , under General d'Espinasse , sent out into the Dobrudscha , was almost annihilated by the pestilence without meeting an enemy . The experiment was tried of sending some of the ships to sea , in ...
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... attack the centre of the Russian extended position , and to march up in front of the formidable earthwork . They left 362 on the field , and had 1640 wounded . The enemy were permitted to retire unmolested . If they had been promptly ...
... attack the centre of the Russian extended position , and to march up in front of the formidable earthwork . They left 362 on the field , and had 1640 wounded . The enemy were permitted to retire unmolested . If they had been promptly ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 51 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 43 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Página 51 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the Colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 56 - With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Página 293 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag ; 4.
Página 44 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Página 51 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Página 56 - It would have been presented at once, but for the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted all the best years of my life, and all the ability I possessed.
Página 49 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Página 90 - Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new startingpoint from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.