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... British restored Shah Shuja to the throne in 1838 , and in 1878 marched into the country and captured the capital , Kabul , setting Yakub Khan upon the throne . This Amir soon afterwards was re- sponsible for the murder of the British ...
... British restored Shah Shuja to the throne in 1838 , and in 1878 marched into the country and captured the capital , Kabul , setting Yakub Khan upon the throne . This Amir soon afterwards was re- sponsible for the murder of the British ...
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... British retreat from , I , 547 . Property in , destroyed by British forces , I , 545 , 547 . Alexandria County , D. C .: Court - house in , unsafe and new one recom- mended , III , 404 . Jail erected in , II , 364 . Retrocession of , to ...
... British retreat from , I , 547 . Property in , destroyed by British forces , I , 545 , 547 . Alexandria County , D. C .: Court - house in , unsafe and new one recom- mended , III , 404 . Jail erected in , II , 364 . Retrocession of , to ...
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... British Government sent out an expedition under John Ross . Ross pene- trated Lancaster Sound for some fifty miles , but , believing it was closed by mountains , re- turned to England . His second in com- mand , W. E. Parry , sent out ...
... British Government sent out an expedition under John Ross . Ross pene- trated Lancaster Sound for some fifty miles , but , believing it was closed by mountains , re- turned to England . His second in com- mand , W. E. Parry , sent out ...
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... British lost 52 killed . The wounded and prisoners on the British side amounted to 334 . Auldjo , Thomas , vice - consul to Poole , Eng- land , nomination of , I , 98 . Aury , Louis de , mentioned , II , 32 . Austin - Topolovampo ...
... British lost 52 killed . The wounded and prisoners on the British side amounted to 334 . Auldjo , Thomas , vice - consul to Poole , Eng- land , nomination of , I , 98 . Aury , Louis de , mentioned , II , 32 . Austin - Topolovampo ...
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... British lieutenant , on June 24 , 1813 , with 40 or 50 men , but claiming to be the advance guard of 1,500 troops and 700 Indians , de- manded of him to surrender . Boerstler sur- rendered 542 men , one 12 - pounder and one 6 - pounder ...
... British lieutenant , on June 24 , 1813 , with 40 or 50 men , but claiming to be the advance guard of 1,500 troops and 700 Indians , de- manded of him to surrender . Boerstler sur- rendered 542 men , one 12 - pounder and one 6 - pounder ...
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Page 82 - MARYLAND. Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. VIRGINIA. George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. NORTH CAROLINA. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. SOUTH CAROLINA. Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. GEORGIA. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Page 84 - ... the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
Page 1168 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 8 - It is, we think, a sound principle, that when a government becomes a partner in any trading company, it divests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen.
Page 70 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
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Page 233 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 84 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and...
Page 70 - ... or where the decision will affect a class of cases or furnish a precedent for the future action of any executive department in the adjustment of a class of cases, or where any authority, right, privilege, or exemption is claimed or denied under the Constitution. In all the above-mentioned...
Page 1168 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State, a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty : Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...