Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America, and Great Britain: Events of 1812-13Lea and Blanchard, 1845 |
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... CLOTH . This is an entirely new volume , and may be considered as a continuation of his former work , which attracted so much attention at the time of its publication . " In 1833 , twelve years ago , the first series of these ...
... CLOTH . This is an entirely new volume , and may be considered as a continuation of his former work , which attracted so much attention at the time of its publication . " In 1833 , twelve years ago , the first series of these ...
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... Cloth . WITH MAPS AND PLANS OF THE BATTLES , & c . , viz : 1. Part of Belgium , indicating the distribution of the armies on commencing hostilities . 2. Field of Quatre - Bras , at 3 o'clock , P. M. 3. Field of Quatre - Bras , at 7 o ...
... Cloth . WITH MAPS AND PLANS OF THE BATTLES , & c . , viz : 1. Part of Belgium , indicating the distribution of the armies on commencing hostilities . 2. Field of Quatre - Bras , at 3 o'clock , P. M. 3. Field of Quatre - Bras , at 7 o ...
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... clothing and camp - covering ; too many of the officers ignorant and negligent ⚫ of indispensable precautions in the midst of an Indian country , within twenty miles of their English allies under Colonels Proctor and St. George , Major ...
... clothing and camp - covering ; too many of the officers ignorant and negligent ⚫ of indispensable precautions in the midst of an Indian country , within twenty miles of their English allies under Colonels Proctor and St. George , Major ...
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... clothing , rifled of their money , the officers ' swords given up to the savages ; men of education , talents , and the highest respectability treated by British officers of every grade , from the highest to the lowest , with ...
... clothing , rifled of their money , the officers ' swords given up to the savages ; men of education , talents , and the highest respectability treated by British officers of every grade , from the highest to the lowest , with ...
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... clothing which their friends in Kentucky had prepared for them , the weather being then very cold ; a supply doubly acceptable , as coming in such good time , but more especially as having been the spontaneous product of the affection ...
... clothing which their friends in Kentucky had prepared for them , the weather being then very cold ; a supply doubly acceptable , as coming in such good time , but more especially as having been the spontaneous product of the affection ...
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Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America ... Charles Jared Ingersoll Visualização integral - 1845 |
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Página 438 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 437 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 493 - Born, sir, in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
Página 378 - And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Página 50 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Página 494 - I rejoice that the period of your toils and of your immense sacrifices is approaching. I rejoice that the interesting revolutionary movements of so many years have issued in the formation of a constitution designed to give permanency to the great object for which you have contended. I rejoice that liberty, which you have so long embraced with enthusiasm...
Página 438 - When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of...
Página 355 - The Creek nation being reduced to extreme want, and not at present having the means of subsistence, the United States, from motives of humanity, will continue to furnish gratuitously the necessaries of life, until the crops of corn can be considered competent to yield the nation a supply,, and will establish...