Medals of the United States MintU.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 312 pages |
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... MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN UNIVERSIT MICHIGAN VERSITY. GTON PRESIDENT OF THE ÒÁÀÑÅ WAS GEORGE 1789 UNITED OBV . George Washington , President of the United States , 1789. Bust of the President . By Pierre Simon Duvivier . REV ...
... MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN UNIVERSIT MICHIGAN VERSITY. GTON PRESIDENT OF THE ÒÁÀÑÅ WAS GEORGE 1789 UNITED OBV . George Washington , President of the United States , 1789. Bust of the President . By Pierre Simon Duvivier . REV ...
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... MICHIGAN M UNIVERSITY THE 1. THE THE BE OF UNIVERSI M OF MICHIGAN MICHIGAN M LIBRARIES ' UNIVERSITY THE OF M OF THE UNIVERSIT ' LIBRARIES ' M LIBRARIES UNIVERSITY OF M ' LIBRARIES ' MICHIGAN . MICHI GAN THE BE THE BE MICHIGAN MICHIGAN ...
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Kenneth M. Failor, Eleonora Hayden. IVERSITY MICHIGAN LIBRARIES UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN UNIVERSIT MICHIGAN VERSITY UNIVERSIT MICHIGAN UL OF M MICH JES . · LIB . THE. BRARIE M THE LIBRARIES ' THE OF UNIVERSITY BE ...
Kenneth M. Failor, Eleonora Hayden. IVERSITY MICHIGAN LIBRARIES UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN UNIVERSIT MICHIGAN VERSITY UNIVERSIT MICHIGAN UL OF M MICH JES . · LIB . THE. BRARIE M THE LIBRARIES ' THE OF UNIVERSITY BE ...
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... Michigan . The tremendous land acquisitions from the Indians led to increasing opposition from the Shawnee Chieftain , Tecumseh and his brother , known as the " Prophet . " With continuing out- breaks and violence , Harrison decided to ...
... Michigan . The tremendous land acquisitions from the Indians led to increasing opposition from the Shawnee Chieftain , Tecumseh and his brother , known as the " Prophet . " With continuing out- breaks and violence , Harrison decided to ...
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Page 53 - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Page 58 - We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us gather the light. Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness and, "riders on the earth together...
Page 24 - 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 11 - 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 maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 182 - Bravery ; and it gives me great pleasure to say, that from the smallest boy in the ship, to the oldest seaman, not a look 'of fear was seen. They all went into action, giving three cheers, and requesting to be laid close alongside the enemy.
Page 169 - Upon occupying the city, it was discovered to be of great strength in itself, and to have its approaches carefully and strongly fortified. The town and works were armed with forty-two pieces of cannon, well supplied with ammunition, and manned with a force of at least seven thousand troops of the line, and from two to three thousand irregulars.
Page 193 - SIR, — The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain, in the capture of one frigate, one brig, and two sloops of war, of the enemy.
Page 53 - Let this session of Congress be known as the session which did more for civil rights than the last hundred sessions combined; as the session which enacted the most far-reaching tax cut of our time; as the session which declared all-out war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States; as the session which finally recognized the health needs of all...
Page 239 - Your approbation of my idea of a medal to perpetuate the memory of York and Saratoga victories, gives me great pleasure, and encourages me to have it struck. I wish you would acquaint me with what kind of a monument, at York the emblems required are to be fixed on ; whether an obelisk or a column ; its dimensions ; whether any part of it is to be marble, and the emblems carved on it, and whether the work is to be executed by the excellent artists in that...
Page 168 - ... 4th, and 5th regiments, deployed as skirmishers to the right and left. A heavy fire of artillery and of musketry was kept up for some time, until finally the enemy's batteries were carried in succession by a squadron of dragoons and the regiments of infantry* that were on the ground. He was soon driven...