The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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... thousand men , twenty - five hundred of them Wellington's veterans , un- der command of Major General Robert Ross . No more than a thousand regulars were on hand to protect the Capital , plus one hundred and fifty marines . and the five ...
... thousand men , twenty - five hundred of them Wellington's veterans , un- der command of Major General Robert Ross . No more than a thousand regulars were on hand to protect the Capital , plus one hundred and fifty marines . and the five ...
Page 221
... thousand militiamen two hundred miles through the wilderness in deep snow to drive them out . Congress authorized the President to call up fifty thousand volun- teers , Nova Scotia and New Brunswick called up their militia , and the ...
... thousand militiamen two hundred miles through the wilderness in deep snow to drive them out . Congress authorized the President to call up fifty thousand volun- teers , Nova Scotia and New Brunswick called up their militia , and the ...
Page 308
... thousand dollars he had saved up and a thousand he had bor- rowed he launched his own newspaper . The Tribune's circulation reached eleven thousand in two months , and within two years Greeley raised the price to two cents . It never ...
... thousand dollars he had saved up and a thousand he had bor- rowed he launched his own newspaper . The Tribune's circulation reached eleven thousand in two months , and within two years Greeley raised the price to two cents . It never ...
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