Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States, Volume 3Amer. Educational Alliance, 1915 - United States |
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... military system , or otherwise the colonial cause must be hopeless . On December 20 , therefore , he addressed a letter to the President of Congress in which he urged that his views be adopted . He said : " My feelings as an officer and ...
... military system , or otherwise the colonial cause must be hopeless . On December 20 , therefore , he addressed a letter to the President of Congress in which he urged that his views be adopted . He said : " My feelings as an officer and ...
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... military powers ; and the vigorous and decisive conduct of these being impossible to distant , numerous , and deliberate bodies , " Congress passed the follow- ing resolution : † " That General Washington shall be , and he is hereby ...
... military powers ; and the vigorous and decisive conduct of these being impossible to distant , numerous , and deliberate bodies , " Congress passed the follow- ing resolution : † " That General Washington shall be , and he is hereby ...
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... military operations during the winter . The British had constantly driven the Americans before them without loss on their part , and it was now confi . dently expected that it would be possi- ble to completely annihilate the Ameri- can ...
... military operations during the winter . The British had constantly driven the Americans before them without loss on their part , and it was now confi . dently expected that it would be possi- ble to completely annihilate the Ameri- can ...
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... Military Journal , pp . 70-71 ; Carrington , Battles of the Revolution , pp . 270-275 ; Stedman , Ameri- can War , vol . i . , pp . 230-234 ; Hildreth , vol . iii . , pp . 166-167 ; Trevelyan , American Revolution , vol . iii . , pp ...
... Military Journal , pp . 70-71 ; Carrington , Battles of the Revolution , pp . 270-275 ; Stedman , Ameri- can War , vol . i . , pp . 230-234 ; Hildreth , vol . iii . , pp . 166-167 ; Trevelyan , American Revolution , vol . iii . , pp ...
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... military station of the Continental army or militia , and there to deliver up such protection and to take the oath of allegiance to the United States . * See Trevelyan , American Revolution , pt . iii . , ( hereinafter referred to as ...
... military station of the Continental army or militia , and there to deliver up such protection and to take the oath of allegiance to the United States . * See Trevelyan , American Revolution , pt . iii . , ( hereinafter referred to as ...
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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.