The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1863 |
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Página 39
... whole British army , in time of peace , 6.5 per cent . of the force otherwise available , is reported constantly " in hospital . " Of the British army in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington , 1808-1814 , twenty - one per cent ...
... whole British army , in time of peace , 6.5 per cent . of the force otherwise available , is reported constantly " in hospital . " Of the British army in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington , 1808-1814 , twenty - one per cent ...
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... whole front . They still kept their cover , but the bullets rat- tled against the whole Federal line , which gave a quick reply . Instantly both ends of the field were clouded in smoke , and the contest raged hotly for an hour . Feeling ...
... whole front . They still kept their cover , but the bullets rat- tled against the whole Federal line , which gave a quick reply . Instantly both ends of the field were clouded in smoke , and the contest raged hotly for an hour . Feeling ...
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... whole brigade retired , and formed behind their battery on the hill . In doing this , the Twelfth New York and a portion of the First Massa- chusetts broke ranks and scattered in different directions for some distance on their retreat ...
... whole brigade retired , and formed behind their battery on the hill . In doing this , the Twelfth New York and a portion of the First Massa- chusetts broke ranks and scattered in different directions for some distance on their retreat ...
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... whole open ground was again swept clear of the enemy , and the plateau around the Henry and Robinson houses re- mained finally in our possession , with the greater part of the Ricketts and Griffin batter- ies , and a flag of the First ...
... whole open ground was again swept clear of the enemy , and the plateau around the Henry and Robinson houses re- mained finally in our possession , with the greater part of the Ricketts and Griffin batter- ies , and a flag of the First ...
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... whole trade , the leading heads since 1821 , when the national accounts were first regularly kept , have been as fol- lows : Total domestic exports , 1820 to 1860 .. Value of Cotton exported ....... $ 2,574,834,091 66 Tobacco 64 Rice 66 ...
... whole trade , the leading heads since 1821 , when the national accounts were first regularly kept , have been as fol- lows : Total domestic exports , 1820 to 1860 .. Value of Cotton exported ....... $ 2,574,834,091 66 Tobacco 64 Rice 66 ...
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Página 70 - 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. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Página 218 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Página 259 - ... 1. Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3.
Página 121 - Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Página 403 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering •with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired...
Página 244 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the Disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government...
Página 133 - Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth...
Página 411 - Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward them, be invasion? I certainly think it would, and it would be coercion also, if the South Carolinians were forced to submit. But if the United States should merely hold and retake its own forts and other property, and collect the duties on foreign importations, or even withhold the mails from places where they were habitually violated, would any or all of these things be invasion...
Página 136 - Sumter. The news itself was, that the officer commanding the Sabine, to which vessel the troops had been transferred from the Brooklyn, acting upon some quasi armistice of the late administration, (and of the existence of which the present administration, up to the time the order was despatched, had only too vague and uncertain rumors to fix attention,) had refused to land the troops.
Página 159 - State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any river divides or flows through two or more States they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.