History of Minneapolis: Gateway to the Northwest, Volume 1Marion Daniel Shutter S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923 |
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Page 61
... completed on the last day of October . Pike was not content , however , to remain idle in his stockade . During the winter he visited the English trading posts , made the traders replace their British flags with the Stars and Stripes ...
... completed on the last day of October . Pike was not content , however , to remain idle in his stockade . During the winter he visited the English trading posts , made the traders replace their British flags with the Stars and Stripes ...
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... completed in the spring of 1821. A dwelling was built near the mill for the accommodation of the miller . The first man to occupy this dwelling was Lieut . William E. Cruger . Prof. William H. Keating , a member 72 HISTORY OF MINNEAPOLIS.
... completed in the spring of 1821. A dwelling was built near the mill for the accommodation of the miller . The first man to occupy this dwelling was Lieut . William E. Cruger . Prof. William H. Keating , a member 72 HISTORY OF MINNEAPOLIS.
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... completed his cabin on the Plympton claim , he placed a French Canadian named La Grue and his wife therein to hold possession , while he returned to his position of sutler at the fort . In the fall of 1839 , while La Grue was absent on ...
... completed his cabin on the Plympton claim , he placed a French Canadian named La Grue and his wife therein to hold possession , while he returned to his position of sutler at the fort . In the fall of 1839 , while La Grue was absent on ...
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... completed until the spring of 1848. Through the influence of Allan Morrison and Henry M. Rice , who had a trading post at the mouth of the Crow Wing River , timber was purchased from the Chippewa Indians for fifty cents . a tree ...
... completed until the spring of 1848. Through the influence of Allan Morrison and Henry M. Rice , who had a trading post at the mouth of the Crow Wing River , timber was purchased from the Chippewa Indians for fifty cents . a tree ...
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... completed , clear titles to land could be obtained , and the population on the east side of the river was about three hundred . William A. Cheever had his land laid out as a town , to which he gave the name of St. Anthony City ...
... completed , clear titles to land could be obtained , and the population on the east side of the river was about three hundred . William A. Cheever had his land laid out as a town , to which he gave the name of St. Anthony City ...
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Page 551 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defence but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Page 546 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 546 - In view of these facts and of these considerations, I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the Government of Spain and the people of Cuba...
Page 35 - Mexico was in latitude 31" 4o', and that we could reach it in three or four days' journey from the Akansea [Arkansas River], and that the Mississippi discharged itself into it, and not to the eastward of the Cape of Florida, nor into the California Sea, we resolved to return home. We considered that the advantage of our travels would be altogether lost to our nation if we fell into the hands of the Spaniards, from whom we could expect no other treatment than death or slavery ; besides, we saw that...
Page 58 - France, make the first cannon which shall be fired in Europe the signal for tearing up any settlement she may have made, and for holding the two continents of America in sequestration for the common purpose of the united British and American nations.
Page 546 - In the opinion of the court the Maine was destroyed by the explosion of a submarine mine, which caused the partial explosion of two or more of her forward magazines. ' ' 8. The court has been unable to obtain evidence fixing the responsibility for the destruction of the Maine upon any person or persons.
Page 59 - ... the property and sovereignty of all Louisiana which had been restored to them have on certain conditions been transferred to the United States by instruments bearing date the 30th of April last. When these shall have received the constitutional sanction of the Senate, they will without delay be communicated to the Representatives also for the exercise of their functions as to those conditions which are within the powers vested by the Constitution in Congress.
Page 58 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 110 - Moines; thence, down, and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des Moines, to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi river; thence, due east, to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence, down, and following the course of the Mississippi river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning.
Page 29 - Traverse; thence up the center of said lake to the southern extremity thereof; thence in a direct line to the head of Big Stone Lake ; thence through its center to its outlet ; thence by a due south line to the north line of the State of Iowa...