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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... whole government in the desert capital when Congress were not in session , firmly and fortunately required that the Orders in Council should not be repeated ; and , in addition to removal of that commercial cause of war , that the ...
... whole government in the desert capital when Congress were not in session , firmly and fortunately required that the Orders in Council should not be repeated ; and , in addition to removal of that commercial cause of war , that the ...
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... whole conference , not to be discussed , but conceded . To that the British , at the first meeting , added , as another demand , a revision of the boundary line between the British and American territories , with a view to prevent ...
... whole conference , not to be discussed , but conceded . To that the British , at the first meeting , added , as another demand , a revision of the boundary line between the British and American territories , with a view to prevent ...
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... whole United States . France and Great Britain in turn ruled the ocean , as each possessed those fisheries , the great American nurseries of navi- gation and commerce . To the shores of their territories the British had exclusive right ...
... whole United States . France and Great Britain in turn ruled the ocean , as each possessed those fisheries , the great American nurseries of navi- gation and commerce . To the shores of their territories the British had exclusive right ...
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... whole treaty of 1783 , by which Great Britain acknowledged the independence of the United States , does not grant , but only recognizes American national sovereignty , which was proclaimed by the declaration of 1776 , and established by ...
... whole treaty of 1783 , by which Great Britain acknowledged the independence of the United States , does not grant , but only recognizes American national sovereignty , which was proclaimed by the declaration of 1776 , and established by ...
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... whole pacification . The Americans , therefore , submitted , with a clause that their consent was not to be understood as in any manner impairing the right of the United States to those islands . Mr. Gallatin wrote to the Secretary of.
... whole pacification . The Americans , therefore , submitted , with a clause that their consent was not to be understood as in any manner impairing the right of the United States to those islands . Mr. Gallatin wrote to the Secretary of.
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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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