Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States, Volume 3Amer. Educational Alliance, 1915 - United States |
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... Washing- ton's hands . Declaring that " the un- just , but determined purpose of the British court to enslave these ... Wash- ington assured Congress that he would employ his best endeavors to properly direct the powers which had been ...
... Washing- ton's hands . Declaring that " the un- just , but determined purpose of the British court to enslave these ... Wash- ington assured Congress that he would employ his best endeavors to properly direct the powers which had been ...
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... Wash- ington , vol . ii . , p . 504 et seq . See the letter quoted in Carrington , Battles of the Revolution , pp . 267-268 ; and the instructions in Brooks , Life of Knox , p . 78 . The name of this officer is spelled differently by ...
... Wash- ington , vol . ii . , p . 504 et seq . See the letter quoted in Carrington , Battles of the Revolution , pp . 267-268 ; and the instructions in Brooks , Life of Knox , p . 78 . The name of this officer is spelled differently by ...
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... Wash- ington selected Christmas Eve as the time for the attack , under the belief that the British troops would be more than ordinarily given up to festivity and indulgence , and consequently would be more or less off their guard . The ...
... Wash- ington selected Christmas Eve as the time for the attack , under the belief that the British troops would be more than ordinarily given up to festivity and indulgence , and consequently would be more or less off their guard . The ...
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... Wash- ington was crossing the Delaware . † By many it is said that Rall spent the night prior to the attack in a disgrace- ful carouse , and that even when the at- tack began he was still at the card table . When aroused by the roll of ...
... Wash- ington was crossing the Delaware . † By many it is said that Rall spent the night prior to the attack in a disgrace- ful carouse , and that even when the at- tack began he was still at the card table . When aroused by the roll of ...
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... Wash- ington of obtaining secret intelligence of the plans of Cornwallis , states that at that critical moment Mr. Robert Morris raised on his private credit in Philadelphia £ 500 in specie , which he transmitted to the commander - in ...
... Wash- ington of obtaining secret intelligence of the plans of Cornwallis , states that at that critical moment Mr. Robert Morris raised on his private credit in Philadelphia £ 500 in specie , which he transmitted to the commander - in ...
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Page 109 - And the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in congress assembled.
Page 109 - ... office — appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated...
Page 106 - WHEREAS the delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and in the second year of the independence of America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...
Page 108 - ... united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the united states in congress assembled shall determine otherwise.
Page 106 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 110 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of Ihe United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.
Page 106 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 108 - 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.
Page 107 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each state shall direct...
Page 179 - Since our arrival at this happy spot, we have had a ham, sometimes a shoulder of bacon, to grace the head of the table; a piece of roast beef adorns the foot; and a dish of beans, or greens, almost imperceptible, decorates the center.