Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing ...Harper, 1902 |
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... attack on Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 was wounded ; promoted lieutenant - general in 1787 . When the Revolutionary War broke out he was lieutenant - colonel of the 37th Foot , and commanded the British forces in west Florida until ...
... attack on Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 was wounded ; promoted lieutenant - general in 1787 . When the Revolutionary War broke out he was lieutenant - colonel of the 37th Foot , and commanded the British forces in west Florida until ...
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... attacked by a Confederate force under General Longstreet . The engagement last- ed from noon till dark , and resulted ... attack of Major Ferguson at KING'S MOUNTAIN ( q . v . ) , where his services gained for him great distinction . So ...
... attacked by a Confederate force under General Longstreet . The engagement last- ed from noon till dark , and resulted ... attack of Major Ferguson at KING'S MOUNTAIN ( q . v . ) , where his services gained for him great distinction . So ...
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... attacking that province by land and soil , but had certain valuable privileges , sea . An English fleet was prepared to coupled with prescribed duties , such as go against Quebec ; a land force , com- building mills , etc. David Kertk ...
... attacking that province by land and soil , but had certain valuable privileges , sea . An English fleet was prepared to coupled with prescribed duties , such as go against Quebec ; a land force , com- building mills , etc. David Kertk ...
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... attacking Mal- headquarters were at Burlington Heights , den . His troops were disappointed and at the western end of Lake Ontario . Gen- mutinous . Then information came of the eral Riall was on the Niagara River , at capture of ...
... attacking Mal- headquarters were at Burlington Heights , den . His troops were disappointed and at the western end of Lake Ontario . Gen- mutinous . Then information came of the eral Riall was on the Niagara River , at capture of ...
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... attacked Fort Anderson ( Feb. 18 ) and drove the Confederates from it . The flee ing garrison was pursued , struck , and dispersed , with a loss of 375 men and two guns . The National troops pressed up both sides of the Cape Fear River ...
... attacked Fort Anderson ( Feb. 18 ) and drove the Confederates from it . The flee ing garrison was pursued , struck , and dispersed , with a loss of 375 men and two guns . The National troops pressed up both sides of the Cape Fear River ...
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Page 338 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 310 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same, as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office — appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United...
Page 311 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 336 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 311 - Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any state should not raise men or should raise a smaller number than its quota and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 339 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 311 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 337 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 338 - All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this constitution, as under the confederation. 2. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be...
Page 214 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela...