The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestP. F. Collier, 1896 - 19 pages V. 1, 2, 3, 4 -- The winning of the West. v. 5, 6 -- The naval war of 1812. v. 7 -- Hunting the grisly and other sketches. v. 8 -- The wilderness hunter. v. 9 -- Hunting trips of a ranchman; Hunting trips on the Prairies and in the mountains. v. 10 -- American ideals; Administration-civil service. v. 12 -- The strenuous life. v. 13, 14, 15, 16 -- Presidential addresses and state papers. |
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Page 37
... troops could have carried them by fair charging , without suffering altogether disproportionate loss . The red tribes acted in rela- tion to the Cumberland settlements exactly as they had previously done toward those on the Kentucky and ...
... troops could have carried them by fair charging , without suffering altogether disproportionate loss . The red tribes acted in rela- tion to the Cumberland settlements exactly as they had previously done toward those on the Kentucky and ...
Page 40
... troops . * Haywood . Six hundred and forty acres were allowed by pre - emption claim to each family settled before June 1 , 1780 ; after that date they had to make proper entries in the courts . The salt - licks were to be held as ...
... troops . * Haywood . Six hundred and forty acres were allowed by pre - emption claim to each family settled before June 1 , 1780 ; after that date they had to make proper entries in the courts . The salt - licks were to be held as ...
Page 51
... troops . Their vic- tories over Braddock , Grant , and St. Clair , gained in each case with a smaller force , conclusively proved their superiority , on their own ground , over the best regulars , disciplined and commanded in the ...
... troops . Their vic- tories over Braddock , Grant , and St. Clair , gained in each case with a smaller force , conclusively proved their superiority , on their own ground , over the best regulars , disciplined and commanded in the ...
Page 53
... troops , French , British , and tories . It was this that gave to the Revolution- ary contest its twofold character , making it on the part of the Americans a struggle for independence in the East , and in the West a war of conquest ...
... troops , French , British , and tories . It was this that gave to the Revolution- ary contest its twofold character , making it on the part of the Americans a struggle for independence in the East , and in the West a war of conquest ...
Page 65
... troops and hardly a Continental soldier had appeared West of the Alleghanies . They had heartily sympathized with their several mother colonies when they became the United States , and had manfully played their part in the Revolutionary ...
... troops and hardly a Continental soldier had appeared West of the Alleghanies . They had heartily sympathized with their several mother colonies when they became the United States , and had manfully played their part in the Revolutionary ...
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