House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 6 |
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... gun - boats , floating batteries , and steam batteries ; and that the true system of defence for the coast requires us to provide all our harbors with some or all of these vessels , according to local circumstances ; leaving to the sea ...
... gun - boats , floating batteries , and steam batteries ; and that the true system of defence for the coast requires us to provide all our harbors with some or all of these vessels , according to local circumstances ; leaving to the sea ...
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... gun - boats , floating batteries , and steam batteries , constitute the best reliance . After considering these defensive means , we will examine the properties of forts and land batteries , these being the only other well - tried ...
... gun - boats , floating batteries , and steam batteries , constitute the best reliance . After considering these defensive means , we will examine the properties of forts and land batteries , these being the only other well - tried ...
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... gun - boats , in being larger ; containing many guns ; and in being stronger -- that is to say , hav- ing thicker sides or bulwarks ; and it has sometimes even been proposed to construct them with ball proof parapets , and with ...
... gun - boats , in being larger ; containing many guns ; and in being stronger -- that is to say , hav- ing thicker sides or bulwarks ; and it has sometimes even been proposed to construct them with ball proof parapets , and with ...
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... gun for gun , than gun - boats ; or , in other words , whether this capability of endurance in the one , would be more than a compensation for the power of locomotion in the other . But , whether near the shore or in the channel ...
... gun for gun , than gun - boats ; or , in other words , whether this capability of endurance in the one , would be more than a compensation for the power of locomotion in the other . But , whether near the shore or in the channel ...
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... gun was so reduced as to increase materially the uncertainty of aim . As it is prob able , therefore , that the protection from solid shot afforded by massive bul- warks would be more than counterbalanced by the greater injury ...
... gun was so reduced as to increase materially the uncertainty of aim . As it is prob able , therefore , that the protection from solid shot afforded by massive bul- warks would be more than counterbalanced by the greater injury ...
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Página 12 - There shall be formed in the said territory not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession and consent to the same...
Página 12 - Woods and Mississippi. The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio ; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Página 10 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Página 12 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.
Página 12 - Provided, however, And it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Página 12 - ... provided however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line, drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Página 61 - I avail myself of this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.
Página 12 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Página 10 - That the said lands shall be granted or settled at such times, and under such regulations, as shall hereafter be agreed on by the United States, in Congress assembled, or any nine or more of them.
Página 12 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.