Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America. 1888Justin Winsor Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 |
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... command- ing in Texas , to pass the Nueces . When armed conflict followed , the President sent a message to Congress , declaring that Mexicans had at last shed the blood of Americans on American soil , and advising a declaration of war ...
... command- ing in Texas , to pass the Nueces . When armed conflict followed , the President sent a message to Congress , declaring that Mexicans had at last shed the blood of Americans on American soil , and advising a declaration of war ...
Page 363
... command of Captain John Barry , the senior officer of the navy . The " Constitution , " the second of the 44's , under Captain Nicholson , came next , and was followed by the ships " George Washington " and " Merri- mack , " the sloops ...
... command of Captain John Barry , the senior officer of the navy . The " Constitution , " the second of the 44's , under Captain Nicholson , came next , and was followed by the ships " George Washington " and " Merri- mack , " the sloops ...
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... command . Shortly afterward he was recalled , and upon his return to the United States the President at once called a court of inquiry , and dismissed him from the service . Rodgers was left in command of the squadron . Early in 1803,1 ...
... command . Shortly afterward he was recalled , and upon his return to the United States the President at once called a court of inquiry , and dismissed him from the service . Rodgers was left in command of the squadron . Early in 1803,1 ...
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... command of Stephen De- catur , a young officer , who , al- though he had gone to sea for the first time only five years be- fore , had already given proof of remarkable professional aptitude . On the 3d of February Decatur received his ...
... command of Stephen De- catur , a young officer , who , al- though he had gone to sea for the first time only five years be- fore , had already given proof of remarkable professional aptitude . On the 3d of February Decatur received his ...
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... command of a frigate , the Navy Department had thought it necessary to supersede him , and the new squadron had been placed under the command of Commodore Barron . This action was a bit- ter disappointment to Preble , but as some time ...
... command of a frigate , the Navy Department had thought it necessary to supersede him , and the new squadron had been placed under the command of Commodore Barron . This action was a bit- ter disappointment to Preble , but as some time ...
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Page 473 - I will never send another Minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 270 - True, there must ; but does that prove it is either party ? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress, or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs.
Page 502 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 474 - According to these bases, you were right to assert that whatever plenipotentiary the Government of the United States might send to France to put an end to the existing differences between the two countries would be undoubtedly received with the respect due to the representative of a free, independent, and powerful nation.
Page 555 - Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains.
Page 470 - As, therefore, it is perfectly clear to my understanding that the assent of the House of Representatives is not necessary to the validity of a treaty; as the treaty with Great Britain exhibits in itself all the objects requiring legislative provision, and on these the papers called for can throw no light, and as it is essential to the due administration of the Government that the boundaries fixed by the Constitution between the different departments should be preserved, a just regard to the Constitution...
Page 426 - Barbarities of the Enemy, exposed in a REPORT of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, appointed to enquire into the spirit and manner in which the war has been waged by the enemy, and the DOCUMENTS — accompanying said report.
Page 340 - A Letter from the Hon. Timothy Pickering, a Senator of the United States from the State of Massachusetts, Exhibiting to His Constituents a Vie.w of the Imminent Danger of an Unnecessary and Ruinous War. Addressed to His Excellency James Sullivan, Governor of the Said State.
Page 521 - An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council, and an Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain towards the Neutral Commerce of America.
Page 473 - Directory is disposed to treat with that one of the three, whose opinions, presumed to be more impartial, promise, in the course of the explanations, more of that reciprocal confidence, which is indispensable.