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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... guns . During the night of June 13 , the Spaniards again attacked the camp , and kept up such a continuous fire that the Americans had no rest . The next night , however , the same plan did not work , as a force of Cubans under Colonel ...
... guns . During the night of June 13 , the Spaniards again attacked the camp , and kept up such a continuous fire that the Americans had no rest . The next night , however , the same plan did not work , as a force of Cubans under Colonel ...
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... guns used at this time were 18 - pounders . William Denning makes wrought - iron cannon of staves bound together ... guns , July 11 , 1820 . First gun rifled in America at the 3 South Boston Iron Company's foundry , 1834 . Cyrus. EDWARD ...
... guns used at this time were 18 - pounders . William Denning makes wrought - iron cannon of staves bound together ... guns , July 11 , 1820 . First gun rifled in America at the 3 South Boston Iron Company's foundry , 1834 . Cyrus. EDWARD ...
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... guns cast and converted in an oven , 1836 . Earliest piece of heavy ordnance cast at the South Boston foundry , a 10 ... guns and forcibly expanding the bore to its finished size by means of mandrels , 1869 . the establishment of a plant ...
... guns cast and converted in an oven , 1836 . Earliest piece of heavy ordnance cast at the South Boston foundry , a 10 ... guns and forcibly expanding the bore to its finished size by means of mandrels , 1869 . the establishment of a plant ...
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... guns at the sea - side , and they dared not keep the 1763 ; mysterious symbols of the governor's 1819 . Cape Breton , a large island at the en- trance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence , and separated from Nova Scotia by the nar- row strait ...
... guns at the sea - side , and they dared not keep the 1763 ; mysterious symbols of the governor's 1819 . Cape Breton , a large island at the en- trance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence , and separated from Nova Scotia by the nar- row strait ...
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... guns . The National troops pressed up both sides of the Cape Fear River , pushed Hoke back , while gunboats secured tor- pedoes in the stream and erected batteries on both banks . Hoke abandoned Wil- mington , Feb. 22 , 1865 , after ...
... guns . The National troops pressed up both sides of the Cape Fear River , pushed Hoke back , while gunboats secured tor- pedoes in the stream and erected batteries on both banks . Hoke abandoned Wil- mington , Feb. 22 , 1865 , after ...
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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.