History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great Britain: Declared by Act of Congress, the 18th of June, 1812, and Concluded by Peace, the 15th of February, 1815, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1852 - United States |
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... hundred unquestionably Ame- ricans ; nor ever was viler enormity than arming the ruthless savages to murder Americans resisting such a wrong . But when the two missions met , that afternoon , the British began by sur- prise that the ...
... hundred unquestionably Ame- ricans ; nor ever was viler enormity than arming the ruthless savages to murder Americans resisting such a wrong . But when the two missions met , that afternoon , the British began by sur- prise that the ...
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... hundred miles in Maine : by which shameful American sub- serviency the British government were , not without reason , encouraged to delude or terrify the American mission at Ghent into a treaty stipulating the uti possidetis . The ...
... hundred miles in Maine : by which shameful American sub- serviency the British government were , not without reason , encouraged to delude or terrify the American mission at Ghent into a treaty stipulating the uti possidetis . The ...
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... hundred millions of dollars , a fleet of a thousand vessels of war , she unfurled the British banner in victory , during the same twelve months , at Vittoria , at Toulouse , at Washington , and at Waterloo . But , just at that epoch of ...
... hundred millions of dollars , a fleet of a thousand vessels of war , she unfurled the British banner in victory , during the same twelve months , at Vittoria , at Toulouse , at Washington , and at Waterloo . But , just at that epoch of ...
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... hundred thousand attendants crowding his capital . The surface of their con- gress was splendid ; but furies of dissension and overreaching serpents lay beneath the roses . Meeting was put off from day to day , week to week , and month ...
... hundred thousand attendants crowding his capital . The surface of their con- gress was splendid ; but furies of dissension and overreaching serpents lay beneath the roses . Meeting was put off from day to day , week to week , and month ...
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... hundred thousand men in arms , he would cut short any question of Russian right . Austria insisted on more of Italy , Prussia on more of Saxony and some of France . Sar- dinia coveted Genoa . Numberless petty sovereignties , tram- pled ...
... hundred thousand men in arms , he would cut short any question of Russian right . Austria insisted on more of Italy , Prussia on more of Saxony and some of France . Sar- dinia coveted Genoa . Numberless petty sovereignties , tram- pled ...
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Page 50 - Islands, on the western and northern coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, and also on the coasts, bays, harbors, and creeks from Mount Joly on the southern coast of Labrador, to and through the Straits of Belleisle, and thence northwardly indefinitely along the coast, without prejudice, however, to any of the exclusive rights of the Hudson Bay Company...
Page 254 - Courts of justice are universally acknowledged to be vested, by their very creation, with power to impose silence, respect, and decorum, in their presence, and submission to their lawful mandates...
Page 211 - Morgan, and, what is strange and difficult to account for, at the very moment when their entire discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements...
Page 50 - American fishermen shall also have liberty, for ever, to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks, of the southern part of the coast of Newfoundland, here above described, and of the coast of Labrador...
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