The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 7Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918 |
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... present for duty . The Potomac was blockaded and the Confederate flag floated on Munson's Hill in sight of Washington . On 31 January President Lincoln gave McClellan a peremptory_order to move on Manassas not later than 22 February ...
... present for duty . The Potomac was blockaded and the Confederate flag floated on Munson's Hill in sight of Washington . On 31 January President Lincoln gave McClellan a peremptory_order to move on Manassas not later than 22 February ...
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... present site of Louisville . In 1808 he was appointed , in conjunction with Capt . Meriwether Lewis ( q.v. ) , to the command of an expedition designed to explore the northwest territory lying between the Mississippi and the Pacific ...
... present site of Louisville . In 1808 he was appointed , in conjunction with Capt . Meriwether Lewis ( q.v. ) , to the command of an expedition designed to explore the northwest territory lying between the Mississippi and the Pacific ...
Stran 50
... present at Burgoyne's surrender . He also took part in the campaigns in the Carolinas 1781 , and was aide to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln at Yorktown . He was brevetted a lieutenant- colonel , and for 14 years was major - general of the New ...
... present at Burgoyne's surrender . He also took part in the campaigns in the Carolinas 1781 , and was aide to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln at Yorktown . He was brevetted a lieutenant- colonel , and for 14 years was major - general of the New ...
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... present site of Cleveland , 22 July 1796 . Cleaveland immediately chose it as a place for his settlement , surveyed it into town lots , and the members of the party named it Cleaveland in his honor . In 1830 , when the Cleveland Ad ...
... present site of Cleveland , 22 July 1796 . Cleaveland immediately chose it as a place for his settlement , surveyed it into town lots , and the members of the party named it Cleaveland in his honor . In 1830 , when the Cleveland Ad ...
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... present , and formed by walls supported on the arches of the nave , and rising above the roof of the side aisles . In these walls windows are inserted for the purpose of increasing the light in the nave . The earliest known is that of ...
... present , and formed by walls supported on the arches of the nave , and rising above the roof of the side aisles . In these walls windows are inserted for the purpose of increasing the light in the nave . The earliest known is that of ...
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Stran 261 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Stran 278 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States...
Stran 271 - ... (c.) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Stran 206 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Stran 261 - 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...
Stran 206 - The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted, and to the objects which it is expressly formed to attain.
Stran 270 - Secondly, a misfortune of this kind may arise where both parties are to blame, where there has been a want of due diligence or of skill on both sides ; in such a case the rule of law is, that the loss must be apportioned between them, as having been occasioned by the fault of both of them.
Stran 4 - When they are contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated, they expect to retire from office ; if they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
Stran 1 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...