Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-sixth President of the United States : a Typical AmericanAmerican citizen Company, 1901 - 413 pages |
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Page 47
... hundred years of Amer- ican residence , complete the heritage that birth has bestowed upon him . His far ancestor , Nicholas Roosevelt , a great- great - great - great - grandfather , was an alderman of the city in the years 1700 and ...
... hundred years of Amer- ican residence , complete the heritage that birth has bestowed upon him . His far ancestor , Nicholas Roosevelt , a great- great - great - great - grandfather , was an alderman of the city in the years 1700 and ...
Page 77
... hundred and twenty - eight members of the assem- bly and the thirty - two men in the senate com- posed a little parliament which controlled the public affairs of a commonwealth more populous than any one of two - thirds of the kingdoms ...
... hundred and twenty - eight members of the assem- bly and the thirty - two men in the senate com- posed a little parliament which controlled the public affairs of a commonwealth more populous than any one of two - thirds of the kingdoms ...
Page 97
... hundred and six , was here as a candidate , and perfectly able to capture - at the very least -the second place on the ticket . Mr. Roosevelt was accorded place with the Committee on Reso- lutions . He laid little claim to a part in the ...
... hundred and six , was here as a candidate , and perfectly able to capture - at the very least -the second place on the ticket . Mr. Roosevelt was accorded place with the Committee on Reso- lutions . He laid little claim to a part in the ...
Page 134
... hundred and eighty men and commanded by Lieutenant - Commander Catesby Jones , a very shrewd fighter . So against him was sent Captain Nicholas Lockyer with forty - five barges and nearly a thousand sailors The British rowed up and ...
... hundred and eighty men and commanded by Lieutenant - Commander Catesby Jones , a very shrewd fighter . So against him was sent Captain Nicholas Lockyer with forty - five barges and nearly a thousand sailors The British rowed up and ...
Page 135
... hundred men , and the assailed about half as many . " There was now nothing to hinder the land- ing of the troops ; and as the scattered trans- ports arrived , the soldiers disembarked and fer- ried through the sluggish water of the ...
... hundred men , and the assailed about half as many . " There was now nothing to hinder the land- ing of the troops ; and as the scattered trans- ports arrived , the soldiers disembarked and fer- ried through the sluggish water of the ...
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