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... force of a very attractive personality and a wonderfully sound judgment and lucid intelligence, he was probably as influential in shaping the policies and expediting the business of the Senate as if he had been a member of that body of ...
... force of a very attractive personality and a wonderfully sound judgment and lucid intelligence, he was probably as influential in shaping the policies and expediting the business of the Senate as if he had been a member of that body of ...
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... forces. But at length it became impossible to conceal the fact that the untrained Boer farmers were fighting just as ... force a passage, and Buller accordingly instructed him to withdraw. At the same time Buller ordered General Hildyard ...
... forces. But at length it became impossible to conceal the fact that the untrained Boer farmers were fighting just as ... force a passage, and Buller accordingly instructed him to withdraw. At the same time Buller ordered General Hildyard ...
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... force was weak and could be readily surprised and captured. He marched forth accordingly, with fine British confidence, straight into the Boer ambush to which he had been invited. He left behind him about 700 men, nearly all of whom ...
... force was weak and could be readily surprised and captured. He marched forth accordingly, with fine British confidence, straight into the Boer ambush to which he had been invited. He left behind him about 700 men, nearly all of whom ...
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... force of volunteers selected from the yeomanry regiments would be formed for service in South Africa, and that nine ... forces, and Lord Roberts, who returned several years ago from India, after a military ex- THE LATE GENERAL WAUCHOPE ...
... force of volunteers selected from the yeomanry regiments would be formed for service in South Africa, and that nine ... forces, and Lord Roberts, who returned several years ago from India, after a military ex- THE LATE GENERAL WAUCHOPE ...
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... force of dervishes to the south of Om- durman. November 25. — Colonel Wingate's column of Anglo- Egyptian troops comes up with the Khalifa on Om De- brikat, 170 miles south of Omdurman, and defeats him utterly ; the Khalifa is killed ...
... force of dervishes to the south of Om- durman. November 25. — Colonel Wingate's column of Anglo- Egyptian troops comes up with the Khalifa on Om De- brikat, 170 miles south of Omdurman, and defeats him utterly ; the Khalifa is killed ...
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Page 338 - granting, however, their joint protection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of as just and equitable
Page 337 - Bath, and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty to the United States, for the aforesaid purpose; and the said plenipotentiaries having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in proper form, have agreed to the following articles : ARTICLE
Page 338 - VIII.—The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty
Page 337 - pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said canal which shall not be offered on the same
Page 338 - end that all other states may share in the honor and advantage of having contributed to a work of such general interest and importance as the canal herein contemplated. And the contracting parties likewise agree that each shall enter into treaty stipulations with such of the Central
Page 336 - within it. 3. Vessels of war of a belligerent shall not revictual nor take any stores in the canal except so far as may be strictly necessary ; and the transit of such vessels through the canal shall be effected with the least
Page 337 - Pacific Ocean, the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M. Clayton, Secretary of State of the United States, and Her Britannic Majesty on the Right Honorable Sir Henry Lytton Buiwer, a member of Her Majesty's most honorable privy council, knight commander of the most honorable Order of
Page 338 - notice to the other. ARTICLE VI.—The contracting parties in this convention engage to invite every state with which both or either have friendly intercourse to enter into stipulations with them similar to those which they have entered into with each other, to
Page 336 - of the canal shall be deemed to be part thereof, for the purposes of this Convention, and In time of war as in time of peace shall enjoy complete Immunity from attack or injury by belligerents and from acts calculated to
Page 337 - of the United States and Great Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal ; agreeing