Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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... carry dispatches to General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans . Learning to like the General , he named his first son ... carried away by filial piety , the North American privateers on the South American coast were legally pirates under ...
... carry dispatches to General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans . Learning to like the General , he named his first son ... carried away by filial piety , the North American privateers on the South American coast were legally pirates under ...
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... carried the first flag of truce used by either of the belligerents during the Civil War . ) 6 When Butler and the Confederate met the latter identified him- self as Major John B. Carey , in civilian life the principal of an academy at ...
... carried the first flag of truce used by either of the belligerents during the Civil War . ) 6 When Butler and the Confederate met the latter identified him- self as Major John B. Carey , in civilian life the principal of an academy at ...
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... carried on solely to determine that question and that alone.14 He went on to assert that the Senate was not sitting as a court . This matter , he emphasized , was of much consequence for if the Senate were sitting as a court it would ...
... carried on solely to determine that question and that alone.14 He went on to assert that the Senate was not sitting as a court . This matter , he emphasized , was of much consequence for if the Senate were sitting as a court it would ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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