American Progress: Or, the Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including Also Life Delineations of Our Most Noted Men

Richard Miller Devens

C.A. Nichols, 1893 - United States - 769 pages

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rranged in topical order	25

II	32

11	39

III	40

Starts for the Coast	48

CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS HIS SPLENDID ARMY TO GENERAL WASHINGTON 1781	55

Him King Indignantly Rebukes the Proposal Last Review of His Troops Affecting Interview	63

Shipof War Serapis in British Waters Crowds of Spectators Line the Coast The Most Sangui	66

SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF A GREAT AND FIERY COMET IN THE SKIES AT 1841	300

V	310

AWFUL EXPLOSION OF COMMODORE STOCKTONS GREAT GUN THE PEACE 1844	315

Instinctive Dread of Pain Persistent Search for a PreventiveDiscovery of the LongSought	324

INVENTION OF THAT WONDROUS PIECE OF MECHANISM THE SEWING 1846	332

OF MEXICOIrritation between the United States and Mexico Points of Boundary Mexico	347

EXPEDITION TO THE RIVER JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA BY LIEUT W F 1847	354

of the Precious Metal Simple Accident that Led to It The Discovery Kept Secret How it	360

Enemy of British Tyranny Fills this High Office What His Mission Involved All Europe	70

ment to be Framed Statesmen and Sages in Council Dignity Learning and Eloquence of	77

FIRST ELECTION AND INAUGURATION OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1789	84

Clairs Army in 1791 Before the Trained Warriors of Little Turtle This Mortifying Disaster	91

7	97

to the United States Excise Laws Monster Meetings and Inflammatory Appeals Officials	105

of Washington Bitter Sectional Contest in Deciding the Location First Compromise in Con	112

Words Fortitude and Serenity Through all His Sufferings He Calmly Announces His Approach	119

9	124

27	131

and Planets in Full Radiance Magnificent Spectacle of the Glittering Corona around the Moon	134

14	137

ion at the Southwest A New Empire Contemplated with Burr as SovereignSeizure of His Flo	142

West Point in 1780	146

John Adams Portrait and Autograph	153

Force Felt all Over the Valley of the Mississippi and to the Atlantic Coast The Earth Suddenly	156

TIME IN A SQUADRON FIGHTLake Erie the Scene of the Encounter Sixteen Vessels	163

GENERAL JACKSONS TERRIBLE ROUT AND SLAUGHTER OF THE BRITISH 1815	171

Presidential Mansion 1876	176

Tempest Suffocating Current of Hot Air All New England Desolated	178

VISIT OF LAFAYETTE TO AMERICA AS THE GUEST OF THE REPUBLIC AT 1324	186

DUEL BETWEEN HENRY CLAY SECRETARY OF STATE AND JOHN RANDOLPH 1826	196

THE GREAT DEBATE BETWEEN WEBSTER AND HAYNE IN CONGRESS Vi1830	205

Websters Reply to Hayne	212

OF THE CENTURY His Bold Enterprising Desperate and Successful War for Many Years	222

and Brilliant Celestial Phenomenon Ever Beheld and Recorded by Man The Whole Firmament	228

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JACKSON AT THE UNITED 1835	236

Old Man Eloquent Carries on a Contest of Eleven Days Single Handed in its Defense in	252

Flames Encircles the Earth Arches of Resplendent Auroral Glories Span the Hemisphere Innu	269

the South Pass Plants the American Flag on the Highest Peak of that Lofty Range He Enriches	285

Trial	286

demics at Different Periods Frightful Mortality and Panic Business Abandoned Churches Closed	368

PROF JOHN W WEBSTER OF HARVARD COLLEGE High Social Position of the Par	376

Thousand Persons Welcome Her Arrival Transcendent Beauty and Power of Her Voice	386

istration of Justice Powerlessness and Indifference of the Regular Authorities Robbery Arson	395

America Distances by Nearly Eight Miles the Whole Fleet of Swift and Splendid Competitors	403

THE INVITED guest of THE NATION Splendid Military Pageant in New York on	412

EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS IN NEW YORK Construction 185	421

LOSS OF THE SPLENDID COLLINS STEAMSHIP ARCTIC OF NEW YORK BY 1854	429

Great Panic A Sudden Universal Crash in the Height of Prosperity Caused by Wild Speculations	447

POLITICAL DEBATE BETWEEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND STEPHEN A DOUG 1858	469

ties of Illuminating Oil in the Depths of the Earth Boring of Innumerable Wells Fabulous Prices	476

TOUR OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES 1860	493

the United States First Military Act in the Long and Bloody Struggle to Dismember the Union	501

Ideal of a Mechanical Miracle Principle Structure and Operation of the Machine NetWork	509

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY Three Months Since Sumter Fell On to Richmond	517

EXTRAORDINARY COMBAT BETWEEN THE IRONCLADS MERRIMAC AND MON 1862	526

One Hundred Thousand Men on Each Side General McClellan Declares on the Field that it	535

CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICKSBURG THE GIBRALTAR OF THE MISSISSIPPI 1863	554

THREE DAYS BATTLE BETWEEN THE CONCENTRATED ARMIES OF GENER 1863	563

COMBAT BETWEEN THE ALABAMA CAPTAIN SEMMES AND THE KEAR 1864	581

THIRTY THOUSAND MILES OF RAILWAY IN THIRTY YEARS AND EIGHTY 1859	645

THE NORTHWEST Most Destructive Conflagration in the History of Civilized Nations	653

Changes Sought in the Relations between Producers and Consumers General Declaration	660

Jubilee Festival and Pageant Throughout the Land Prosperity Power and Renown of	689

MAC RAILWAY STATION IN WASHINGTON JULY 2 His Departure from the White	708

Struggles Against Law and Order in Chicago Ill and Milwaukee Wis and for the First Time	727

THE WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION The Four Hundredth Anniversary of the 1893	741

VII	754

a Dense Black Atmosphere for Fifteen Hours The Herds Retire to their Stalls the Fowls to their	759

in the United StatesOrigin Rapid Spread Influence and Wonderful History of the Movement	766

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Title	American Progress: Or, the Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including Also Life Delineations of Our Most Noted Men
Author	Richard Miller Devens
Publisher	C.A. Nichols, 1893
Original from	University of Chicago
Digitized	23 Jun 2014
Length	769 pages

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