The History of Illinois: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 255 strani |
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The History of Illinois: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time William Henry Carpenter,Timothy Shay Arthur Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1857 |
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American arms army arrived attack attempted banks battle Black Hawk Book of Mormon brave British posts Cahokia canal canoes Captain Heald ceded cession chief Chippewas Clair Colonel Clarke command commenced council detachment Detroit dians dollars Duhaut encampment enemy English erected expedition Father fifty fire forests Fort Malden Fort Vincennes France French friends garrison Governor guns Higgins horses hostile hundred Illinois River immediately Indian tribes inhabitants Kaskaskia Kaskaskia River killed Lake Lake Michigan lands Little Turtle Marquette massacre ment Miami miles military militia Mississippi Mormons murdered Nauvoo Nauvoo Legion Nephites North-western Territory officers Ohio party peace Pontiac possession prairie Prairie du Chien prisoners rangers retreat rifle Rock River Sacs Salle savages sent settlements settlers Smith soldiers soon spirit Tecumseh thousand tion took town treaty of 1804 troops United village Vincennes Wabash warriors Wayne whole wounded
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Stran 74 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Stran 64 - ... that no Governor or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in. America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Stran 109 - Vincents were reduced, and to the officers and soldiers that have been since incorporated into the said regiment, to be laid off in one tract, the length of which not to exceed double the breadth, in such place on the North-west side of the Ohio as a majority of the officers shall choose, and to be afterwards divided among the said officers and soldiers in due proportion according to the laws of Virginia.
Stran 74 - God knows I do not at this time speak from motives of party heat ; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. However superior to me in general. knowledge and experience the respectable body of this house may be, yet I claim to know more of America than most of you, having seen and been conversant in that country.
Stran 208 - My warriors fell around me; it began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand. The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sank in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire.
Stran 102 - For if I am obliged to storm, you may depend on such treatment as- is justly due to a murderer. Beware of destroying stores of any kind, or any papers or letters that are in your possession, or hurting one house in town — for, by Heavens! if you do, there shall be no mercy shown you.
Stran 73 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Stran 67 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Stran 114 - I found the road strewed with them for many miles, but was not able to remedy it, for having had all my horses killed, and being mounted upon one that could not be pricked out of a walk, I could not get forward myself, and the orders I sent forward, either to halt the front or prevent the men from parting with their arms, were unattended to.
Stran 24 - Two carried tobacco-pipes, well-adorned, and trimmed with many kinds of feathers. They marched slowly, lifting their pipes toward the sun, as if offering them to him to smoke, but yet without uttering a single word. They were a long time coming the little way from the village to us. Having reached us at last, they stopped to consider us attentively. I now took courage, seeing these ceremonies, which are used by them only with friends, and still more on seeing them covered with stuffs, which made...