A Paragraph History of the United States from the Discovery of the Continent to the Present Time: With Brief Notes on Contemporaneous Events. Chronologically ArrangedRoberts brothers, 1875 - 93 pages |
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... Washington . George Washington was born February 22d ( 11th , Old Style ) in Westmoreland County , Va . , Parish Washington , near Pope's Creek . His father was a large landed proprietor , who traced his English ancestry back to the ...
... Washington . George Washington was born February 22d ( 11th , Old Style ) in Westmoreland County , Va . , Parish Washington , near Pope's Creek . His father was a large landed proprietor , who traced his English ancestry back to the ...
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... Washington was sent by the Governor stroyed by an earthquake . of Virginia to protest against the course taken by the French . The protest was of no avail and hostilities began . General Braddock came over in 1765 to lead forward the ...
... Washington was sent by the Governor stroyed by an earthquake . of Virginia to protest against the course taken by the French . The protest was of no avail and hostilities began . General Braddock came over in 1765 to lead forward the ...
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... Washington , Patrick Henry , Samuel and John Adams , and President Witherspoon of Princeton College . The unanimous spirit of the Congress was one of firmness in resisting what were deemed the encroach- ments of Great Britain and of ...
... Washington , Patrick Henry , Samuel and John Adams , and President Witherspoon of Princeton College . The unanimous spirit of the Congress was one of firmness in resisting what were deemed the encroach- ments of Great Britain and of ...
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... Washington was appointed commander - in - chief . 1775. The Battle of Bunker Hill . This first really important , and perhaps most famous , battle of the Revo- lutionary War , was fought June 17th , on one of the hills of Charlestown ...
... Washington was appointed commander - in - chief . 1775. The Battle of Bunker Hill . This first really important , and perhaps most famous , battle of the Revo- lutionary War , was fought June 17th , on one of the hills of Charlestown ...
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... Washington Elm . " Generals Lee , Schuyler , Ward , and Putnam were made Washington's chief military assistants . His first work was the thorough organization and discipline of the army , which up to this time was in rather a sorry ...
... Washington Elm . " Generals Lee , Schuyler , Ward , and Putnam were made Washington's chief military assistants . His first work was the thorough organization and discipline of the army , which up to this time was in rather a sorry ...
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Page 61 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 84 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 86 - MARYLAND. Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. VIRGINIA. George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. NORTH CAROLINA. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. SOUTH CAROLINA. Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. GEORGIA. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Page 41 - This committee was appointed on the 1 1th, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia ; John Adams, of Massachusetts ; Benjamin Franklin, of Pennsylvania ; Roger Sherman, of Connecticut ; and Robert R. Livingston, of New York.
Page 85 - States may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Page 41 - That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.
Page 85 - In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Page 83 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
Page 85 - Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery. CONNECTICUT. — Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott. NEW YORK. — William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. NEW JERSEY. — Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. PENNSYLVANIA. — Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross. DELAWARE.
Page 53 - Sir, if a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so. If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come. My hold on life is probably as frail as that of any man who now hears me ; but, while that hold lasts, it shall be devoted to the service of my country — to the freedom of man.