The American Historical Record, Volume 1Benson John Lossing Chase & Town, 1872 - United States |
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... British guard around us were utterly unable to afford protection . They called loudly for Gen. Proctor and Col. Elliot to come to our relief . At this critical moment , Tecumseh came rushing in , deeply excited , and denounced the ...
... British guard around us were utterly unable to afford protection . They called loudly for Gen. Proctor and Col. Elliot to come to our relief . At this critical moment , Tecumseh came rushing in , deeply excited , and denounced the ...
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... British and Tories on all sides . Cornwallis was in Virginia , having come up from North Carolina to assist Generals Phillips and Arnold , in the subjugation of the state . Lafayette had been sent to Virginia with Continental troops ...
... British and Tories on all sides . Cornwallis was in Virginia , having come up from North Carolina to assist Generals Phillips and Arnold , in the subjugation of the state . Lafayette had been sent to Virginia with Continental troops ...
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... British officers intend to perform a play next Saturday at the Barracks . I shall be extremely happy to have the honor to attend you and Mrs. Jefferson in my Box at the Theatre should you or that lady be inclined to go . I , am Sir ...
... British officers intend to perform a play next Saturday at the Barracks . I shall be extremely happy to have the honor to attend you and Mrs. Jefferson in my Box at the Theatre should you or that lady be inclined to go . I , am Sir ...
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... British Islands , previous to the Roman invasion , and ends with a notice of the Treaty concluded in May , 1871 , for the settlement of matters in dispute in connection with the sea- rover , Alabama . The work is divided into ten eras ...
... British Islands , previous to the Roman invasion , and ends with a notice of the Treaty concluded in May , 1871 , for the settlement of matters in dispute in connection with the sea- rover , Alabama . The work is divided into ten eras ...
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... British institutions in part or in whole , was regarded as disloyalty to the new Republic . It was indeed a time of bitter partisan- ship when a writer in a news - paper ( Aurora of Philadelphia ) could say on the retire- ment of the ...
... British institutions in part or in whole , was regarded as disloyalty to the new Republic . It was indeed a time of bitter partisan- ship when a writer in a news - paper ( Aurora of Philadelphia ) could say on the retire- ment of the ...
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Page 154 - ... a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada; and by the said territorial line to the Lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 355 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Page 157 - Miami river of the lake, then and in that case, with the assent of the Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay...
Page 154 - The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio ; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Page 154 - Miami aforesaid ; and on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east, after intersecting the due north line aforesaid from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line, and thence with the same, through Lake Erie, to the Pennsylvania line...
Page 393 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 63 - When a retrospect is taken of the Washingtonian administration for eight years, it is a subject of the greatest astonishment that a single individual should have cankered the principles of republicanism in an enlightened people, just emerged from the gulf of despotism, and should have carried his designs against the public liberty so far, as to have put in jeopardy its very existence. Such however are the facts, and with these staring us in the face, this day ought to be a JUBILEE in the United States.
Page 307 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 508 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 477 - Hudson's River, and all the Land from the West side of Connecticut River, to the East side of Delaware Bay...