Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing...Harper, 1905 |
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... battle of Princeton . He was in the battles of Brandywine , Germantown , and Monmouth . He challenged Gen. Thomas Conway to fight a duel because of offen- sive words the latter used towards Wash- and charging up to the camp killed Sur ...
... battle of Princeton . He was in the battles of Brandywine , Germantown , and Monmouth . He challenged Gen. Thomas Conway to fight a duel because of offen- sive words the latter used towards Wash- and charging up to the camp killed Sur ...
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... battle of Point Pleasant , in 1774 , and was captain of a Virginia regiment in 1775. Being colonel of Washington county militia in 1780 , he marched , with his regiment , 200 miles to the attack of Major Ferguson at KING'S MOUNTAIN ( q ...
... battle of Point Pleasant , in 1774 , and was captain of a Virginia regiment in 1775. Being colonel of Washington county militia in 1780 , he marched , with his regiment , 200 miles to the attack of Major Ferguson at KING'S MOUNTAIN ( q ...
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... battle of Bull Run , July 21 , 1861 . Gatling rapid - firing gun , from five to ten barrels around one common axis ; ten- barrel Gatling discharges 1,200 shots a minute ; range , 3,000 yds .; invented in 1861 . S. B. Dean , of South ...
... battle of Bull Run , July 21 , 1861 . Gatling rapid - firing gun , from five to ten barrels around one common axis ; ten- barrel Gatling discharges 1,200 shots a minute ; range , 3,000 yds .; invented in 1861 . S. B. Dean , of South ...
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... battle of Las Guasimas , Cuba , June 24 , 1898 . Capron , ALLYN , military officer ; born in Tampa , Fla . , Aug. 27 , 1846 ; grad- uated at the United States Military Academy in 1867 , and entered the artillery branch . When the ...
... battle of Las Guasimas , Cuba , June 24 , 1898 . Capron , ALLYN , military officer ; born in Tampa , Fla . , Aug. 27 , 1846 ; grad- uated at the United States Military Academy in 1867 , and entered the artillery branch . When the ...
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... battle of STONE RIVER ( q . v . ) . In the army at that time was one of the princi- operations in northern Georgia late in pal causes of his defeat near Saratoga . 1863 , and in the Atlanta campaign the Carleton was made lieutenant ...
... battle of STONE RIVER ( q . v . ) . In the army at that time was one of the princi- operations in northern Georgia late in pal causes of his defeat near Saratoga . 1863 , and in the Atlanta campaign the Carleton was made lieutenant ...
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Page 337 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 311 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 311 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Page 311 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 307 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
Page 311 - ... or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state, on any question, shall be entered on the journal, when it is desired by any delegate ; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Page 426 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 400 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 312 - That we, the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents. In the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and every of the said articles of confederation and perpetual union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained.
Page 337 - State, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens, or subjects.