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... 8 бо 62 72 77 79 85 87 90 92 96 The French in North America Rivalry of the French and English The French and Indian War The Problem of the West • 98 104 107 112 PAGE CHAPTER VII . The Policy of Grenville THE CONTEST ix.
... 8 бо 62 72 77 79 85 87 90 92 96 The French in North America Rivalry of the French and English The French and Indian War The Problem of the West • 98 104 107 112 PAGE CHAPTER VII . The Policy of Grenville THE CONTEST ix.
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... Indian Wars , 1689-1763 108 Rival Claims of France , Spain , and England in North America , 1756 113 Results of French and Indian War , 1756-1763 . 113 Disposition Made of Conquests in French and Indian War 115 Lexington and Concord 139 ...
... Indian Wars , 1689-1763 108 Rival Claims of France , Spain , and England in North America , 1756 113 Results of French and Indian War , 1756-1763 . 113 Disposition Made of Conquests in French and Indian War 115 Lexington and Concord 139 ...
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... India , and islands still more remote which their traders did not themselves visit . Dur- ing the rude ages which followed the disintegration of Roman power commerce languished and geographical knowledge con- tracted . Then the Crusades ...
... India , and islands still more remote which their traders did not themselves visit . Dur- ing the rude ages which followed the disintegration of Roman power commerce languished and geographical knowledge con- tracted . Then the Crusades ...
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... India around the Dark Con- tinent.1 Out of the crowd of seamen in Portuguese employ who took part in these explorations emerges one of the few men whose names will live forever . This man was the Italian known to the English - speaking ...
... India around the Dark Con- tinent.1 Out of the crowd of seamen in Portuguese employ who took part in these explorations emerges one of the few men whose names will live forever . This man was the Italian known to the English - speaking ...
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... Indian culture . The tribes , still partly in the hunting stage , suffered only incon- venience from the destruction ... Indians . In the hope of success farther on he divided his party , one section reaching the Colorado River at the ...
... Indian culture . The tribes , still partly in the hunting stage , suffered only incon- venience from the destruction ... Indians . In the hope of success farther on he divided his party , one section reaching the Colorado River at the ...
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Page 209 - Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the state governments extends over the several states.
Page 136 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: Resolved, NCD 1.
Page 124 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 311 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Page 282 - France, make the first cannon which shall be fired in Europe the signal for tearing up any settlement she may have made, and for holding the two continents of America in sequestration for the common purposes of the United British and American nations.
Page 141 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Page 336 - Americans will pay, which the exhausted state of the continent renders very unlikely ; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence contrary to the natural course of things.
Page 282 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 238 - If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.
Page 173 - States shall be divided or appropriated : of granting letters of marque and reprisal, in times of peace : appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures ; provided, that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.