Hawthorne's History of the United States: From the Landing of Columbus to the Signing of the Peace Protocol with Spain, Band 2P. F. Collier, 1898 |
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... . JEFFERSONIAN SUN AND SHADE XXV . THE WAR OF 1812 · XXVI . COMPROMISES AND THE DOCTRINE • PAGE 378 406 435 464 494 • 524 559 589 617 · 640 672 699 · 737 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME TWO BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL - ( iii )
... . JEFFERSONIAN SUN AND SHADE XXV . THE WAR OF 1812 · XXVI . COMPROMISES AND THE DOCTRINE • PAGE 378 406 435 464 494 • 524 559 589 617 · 640 672 699 · 737 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME TWO BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL - ( iii )
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... HILL - DEATH OF GENERAL WARREN , JUNE 17 , 1775 GEORGE WASHINGTON " THE MINUTE MEN OF " 76 " ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE , CHRISTMAS NIGHT , 1776 CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL JONES QUELLING THE MOB ...
... HILL - DEATH OF GENERAL WARREN , JUNE 17 , 1775 GEORGE WASHINGTON " THE MINUTE MEN OF " 76 " ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE , CHRISTMAS NIGHT , 1776 CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL JONES QUELLING THE MOB ...
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... Hills- borough . They proved a conspiracy , on the part of Hutch- inson , Oliver and others , to crush American liberty and in- troduce military rule : they were treasonable in the worst sense . Franklin remarked , after reading them ...
... Hills- borough . They proved a conspiracy , on the part of Hutch- inson , Oliver and others , to crush American liberty and in- troduce military rule : they were treasonable in the worst sense . Franklin remarked , after reading them ...
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... Hill , near Medford . Forty thousand militia , from various parts of the country , took up arms and prepared to march on Boston ; and though word was sent to them that the time had not yet come , their rising was an object lesson to ...
... Hill , near Medford . Forty thousand militia , from various parts of the country , took up arms and prepared to march on Boston ; and though word was sent to them that the time had not yet come , their rising was an object lesson to ...
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... hill , crowned with pine and birch , that lies like a sleeping serpent to the east on the way to Concord . They were a trifle jaded now from their all - night march , and their gaiters and uni- forms were a little dusty ; but the ...
... hill , crowned with pine and birch , that lies like a sleeping serpent to the east on the way to Concord . They were a trifle jaded now from their all - night march , and their gaiters and uni- forms were a little dusty ; but the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 642 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Seite 494 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Seite 619 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Seite 620 - ... doubtful war. Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge, before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Seite 633 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Seite 608 - Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself, or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature.
Seite 608 - With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity.
Seite 653 - HERE on this very spot, I took leave of him ; I wished him success and honor ; you have your instructions, I said, from the Secretary of War, I had a strict eye to them, and will add but one word — BEWARE OF A SURPRISE.
Seite 653 - He went off with that as my last solemn warning thrown into his ears. And yet ! to suffer that army to be cut to pieces — hacked, butchered, tomahawked — by a surprise — the very thing I guarded him against!
Seite 697 - I expressed them therefore with great hesitation ; but whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others.