Our Country: A Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Volume 3Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1878 |
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Page 1215
... position on Queenstown Heights , opposite Lewiston . At midsummer , hostile demonstrations had been made on Lake Ontario and on the St. Lawrence frontier . Both parties were earnestly seeking the control of those waters , and the ...
... position on Queenstown Heights , opposite Lewiston . At midsummer , hostile demonstrations had been made on Lake Ontario and on the St. Lawrence frontier . Both parties were earnestly seeking the control of those waters , and the ...
Page 1218
... position among the snows of the wilderness on the banks of the Maumee River ; the Army of the Centre , under General Smythe , was resting on the defensive on the Niagara frontier ; and the Army of the North , under General Bloomfield ...
... position among the snows of the wilderness on the banks of the Maumee River ; the Army of the Centre , under General Smythe , was resting on the defensive on the Niagara frontier ; and the Army of the North , under General Bloomfield ...
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... position . The Java tried to run down on the Con- stitution's quarter to engage in close action , but received much damage without gaining any advantage . As she turned , the Constitution poured a raking broadside into the stern of her ...
... position . The Java tried to run down on the Con- stitution's quarter to engage in close action , but received much damage without gaining any advantage . As she turned , the Constitution poured a raking broadside into the stern of her ...
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... position , that the door for negotiation seemed to be irrevocably shut . " His Royal Highness , " said the manifesto , " can never admit that the exercise of undoubted and hitherto undisputed right of searching merchant - vessels in ...
... position , that the door for negotiation seemed to be irrevocably shut . " His Royal Highness , " said the manifesto , " can never admit that the exercise of undoubted and hitherto undisputed right of searching merchant - vessels in ...
Page 1239
... position within fifteen or twenty paces of the strong pickets , before they were discovered . The garrison consisted of Kentucky " sharp - shooters , " whose rifles now opened a deadly fire upon the foe . The British columns . wavered ...
... position within fifteen or twenty paces of the strong pickets , before they were discovered . The garrison consisted of Kentucky " sharp - shooters , " whose rifles now opened a deadly fire upon the foe . The British columns . wavered ...
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Page 1597 - And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 1846 - I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
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Page 1684 - April 9, 1865 GENERAL: — I received your note of this morning on the picket-line whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
Page 1461 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time, but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either.
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Page 1714 - Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.