A Junior Class History of the United States: To which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, with Questions, Exercises, Copious Notes, Etc. ...E. Maynard, 1890 - 307 pages |
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... British Museum . Another copy was procured by the Hon . Charles Sumner , during his last visit to Europe . It is not known that there is a third copy in existence . The work is in Latin . Map Questions . - Where is Florida ? ( Map , p ...
... British Museum . Another copy was procured by the Hon . Charles Sumner , during his last visit to Europe . It is not known that there is a third copy in existence . The work is in Latin . Map Questions . - Where is Florida ? ( Map , p ...
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... British vessels , and they were not allowed to ship any of their staple products to any country except England . This law caused great discontent in the colony ; and was the means of exciting a rebellion called Bacon's Rebellion , from ...
... British vessels , and they were not allowed to ship any of their staple products to any country except England . This law caused great discontent in the colony ; and was the means of exciting a rebellion called Bacon's Rebellion , from ...
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... British were quartered near it during the war of American In- dependence , their general so respected it , that , when his soldiers were cutting down every tree for firewood , he placed a sentinel under it that not a branch of it might ...
... British were quartered near it during the war of American In- dependence , their general so respected it , that , when his soldiers were cutting down every tree for firewood , he placed a sentinel under it that not a branch of it might ...
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... British regular soldiers , to take command of all the forces in the colonies . Several expeditions were arranged against the French forts in different parts of the country ; one of them , against Fort du Quesne , led by Braddock himself ...
... British regular soldiers , to take command of all the forces in the colonies . Several expeditions were arranged against the French forts in different parts of the country ; one of them , against Fort du Quesne , led by Braddock himself ...
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... British soldiers ap- proached , he felt for his watch , intending to give it to them in order to insure kind treatment ; but one of them , thinking he was searching for a pistol , shot him , inflicting an incurable wound . He was taken ...
... British soldiers ap- proached , he felt for his watch , intending to give it to them in order to insure kind treatment ; but one of them , thinking he was searching for a pistol , shot him , inflicting an incurable wound . He was taken ...
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Page 9 - 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 8 - 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 meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
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Page 97 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony...
Page 10 - Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George...
Page 152 - ... first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen...
Page 198 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 140 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 76 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.
Page 101 - Six years after the arrival of Winthrop, the general court voted a sum, equal to a year's rate of the whole colony, towards the erection of a college. In 1638, John Harvard, who arrived in the bay only to fall a victim to the most wasting disease of the climate, desiring to...