American Progress: Or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including Also Life Delineations of Our Most Noted Men. A Book for the Times |
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... Colors Surmount the Work . - Pemberton Sends a Flag of Truce - His Interview with Grant . - Grant's Terms : " Uncon- ditional Surrender . " - The Victors Enter the City , July Fourth . — Curious Reminiscences . . . 554 THREE DAYS ...
... Colors Surmount the Work . - Pemberton Sends a Flag of Truce - His Interview with Grant . - Grant's Terms : " Uncon- ditional Surrender . " - The Victors Enter the City , July Fourth . — Curious Reminiscences . . . 554 THREE DAYS ...
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... Colors , and Strange , Glowing Beauty . — The People Wonder Struck . - Admiration Among the Intelligent . - Alarm Among the Ignorant . - Conflagration of the World Feared . 228 MAGNIFICENT AURORA BOREALIS OF 1837. — A Vast Canopy of ...
... Colors , and Strange , Glowing Beauty . — The People Wonder Struck . - Admiration Among the Intelligent . - Alarm Among the Ignorant . - Conflagration of the World Feared . 228 MAGNIFICENT AURORA BOREALIS OF 1837. — A Vast Canopy of ...
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... colors ? Is not the ship fast sinking ? " " What ! doctor , " re- plied Jones , " would you have me strike to a drop of water ? Here , help me get this gun over ! " The doctor , as though answer- ing a sudden professional call , was ...
... colors ? Is not the ship fast sinking ? " " What ! doctor , " re- plied Jones , " would you have me strike to a drop of water ? Here , help me get this gun over ! " The doctor , as though answer- ing a sudden professional call , was ...
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... colors . Fortunately for me , a cannon - ball had done that before , by carrying away the ensign - staff ; he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sink- ing , as he supposed , or of calling for quar- ter , and he preferred the ...
... colors . Fortunately for me , a cannon - ball had done that before , by carrying away the ensign - staff ; he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sink- ing , as he supposed , or of calling for quar- ter , and he preferred the ...
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... colors were struck at half an hour past ten o'clock . This prize proved to be the British ship- of - war , the Serapis , a new ship of forty- four guns , built on the most approved con- struction , with two complete batteries , one of ...
... colors were struck at half an hour past ten o'clock . This prize proved to be the British ship- of - war , the Serapis , a new ship of forty- four guns , built on the most approved con- struction , with two complete batteries , one of ...
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