Elements of Useful Knowledge: Volume II : Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of Schools, Količina 2Hudson and Goodwin, 1813 - 224 strani |
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... half the army was disabled by a violent ague and fever , and a malignant dysentery . In October , the armed vessels of the par- ties came to action , and the Americans were defeated , but it being late , the British troops retired into ...
... half the army was disabled by a violent ague and fever , and a malignant dysentery . In October , the armed vessels of the par- ties came to action , and the Americans were defeated , but it being late , the British troops retired into ...
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... half that number . General Washing- ton retreated and encamped about eighteen miles from Philadelphia ; while general Howe took possession of that city . Of the Battle at Germantown . After having taken possession of Philadelphia it ...
... half that number . General Washing- ton retreated and encamped about eighteen miles from Philadelphia ; while general Howe took possession of that city . Of the Battle at Germantown . After having taken possession of Philadelphia it ...
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... half the number of veterans . The battle was fought with great bravery and effect ; for although lord Cornwallis remained master of the field , his losses , in a country where he could not recruit his army , had the effect of a defeat ...
... half the number of veterans . The battle was fought with great bravery and effect ; for although lord Cornwallis remained master of the field , his losses , in a country where he could not recruit his army , had the effect of a defeat ...
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... half pay for seven years after the war , to the commissioned officers ; and to non - commissioned officers and privates , eighty dol- lars , at the end of the war , in addition to their pay and rations . Of the Effects of this Grant ...
... half pay for seven years after the war , to the commissioned officers ; and to non - commissioned officers and privates , eighty dol- lars , at the end of the war , in addition to their pay and rations . Of the Effects of this Grant ...
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... half pay resolves had given uneasiness , by establishing a pre- cedent of pensions , they requested a sum in gross in lieu of half pay for life . Of the Proceedings of Congress on this Memorial . In compliance with the wishes of the ...
... half pay resolves had given uneasiness , by establishing a pre- cedent of pensions , they requested a sum in gross in lieu of half pay for life . Of the Proceedings of Congress on this Memorial . In compliance with the wishes of the ...
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Stran 209 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now...
Stran 214 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole...
Stran 213 - West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort ; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation.
Stran 209 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Stran 212 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Stran 216 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Stran 213 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Stran 213 - NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the NORTH, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted.
Stran 212 - But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...