History of the United States of North AmericaC. Tilt, 1838 - 375 strani |
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... prepare boats for passing down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico - an undertaking of great difficulty and danger , which was not accomplished until July 18th , 1543 . Fifty days afterwards the remnant of Soto's splendid company of ...
... prepare boats for passing down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico - an undertaking of great difficulty and danger , which was not accomplished until July 18th , 1543 . Fifty days afterwards the remnant of Soto's splendid company of ...
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... preparing to embark , Ribault arrived with a reinforcement , and ample supplies of every kind . The colony had now a fair prospect of ultimate success . But it had been planted in a territory to which the Spanish had a prior claim ...
... preparing to embark , Ribault arrived with a reinforcement , and ample supplies of every kind . The colony had now a fair prospect of ultimate success . But it had been planted in a territory to which the Spanish had a prior claim ...
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... prepared , it was pro- vided that the superior council in England might name the colonial council , with power to elect its own officers and fill its own vacancies . The religion of the church of England was established for the colony ...
... prepared , it was pro- vided that the superior council in England might name the colonial council , with power to elect its own officers and fill its own vacancies . The religion of the church of England was established for the colony ...
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... preparing to desert with the pinnace . This he prevented at the peril of his life . Soon after Newport arrived with a supply of provisions and instruments of husbandry , and a reinforcement of one hundred persons , composed of many ...
... preparing to desert with the pinnace . This he prevented at the peril of his life . Soon after Newport arrived with a supply of provisions and instruments of husbandry , and a reinforcement of one hundred persons , composed of many ...
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... preparing to imitate the savages in their revenge and cruelty . On the approach of harvest , when they knew a hostile attack would be most formidable and fatal , they fell suddenly upon all the Indian plantations , murdered every person ...
... preparing to imitate the savages in their revenge and cruelty . On the approach of harvest , when they knew a hostile attack would be most formidable and fatal , they fell suddenly upon all the Indian plantations , murdered every person ...
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afterwards American appointed arms Arnold arrived artillery assembly attack attempt batteries battle body Boston Britain British army Burgoyne camp campaign Canada Captain captured Charleston charter coast Colonel colonists colony command commenced compelled congress council declared defeat defence Delaware detachment effect enemy engagement England English expedition favour fire fleet force Fort Edward France French frigate garrison governor guns harbour hostilities Indians inhabitants Island Jefferson Jersey killed king land legislature Lord Cornwallis Lord Rawdon loss marched Massachusetts measures ment miles military militia nation North officers parliament party passed peace Philadelphia possession president prisoners proceeded province provisions Quebec received regiment reinforcements retired retreat returned Rhode Island river royal royalists Sackett's Harbour sailed sent settlement ships Sir Henry Clinton soon South Carolina spirit squadron succeeded success Sullivan's Island surrender took town treaty troops United vessels Virginia voted Washington whole wounded York York island
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Stran 366 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Stran 366 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Stran 54 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Stran 360 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Stran 359 - ... 2. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
Stran 359 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Stran 59 - Covenant and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Stran 362 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Stran 365 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Stran 370 - ... number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.