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... troops when the time of the American Revolution came . The coast of Connecticut was first explored by one of the early Dutch navigators , Adrian Block , who was the first European to sail through Hurlgate . This was in 1614 ; and the ...
... troops when the time of the American Revolution came . The coast of Connecticut was first explored by one of the early Dutch navigators , Adrian Block , who was the first European to sail through Hurlgate . This was in 1614 ; and the ...
Page 153
... troops crowded together , and were shot down . The fight lasted three hours . It ended in a dis- orderly retreat of the British troops , more than seven hundred of whom were killed out of twelve hundred . General Braddock showed great ...
... troops crowded together , and were shot down . The fight lasted three hours . It ended in a dis- orderly retreat of the British troops , more than seven hundred of whom were killed out of twelve hundred . General Braddock showed great ...
Page 166
... troops were stationed in New York and Boston in the hope to keep the peo- ple quiet . But the effect was just the other way . In New York the soldiers cut down the liberty - pole , which had been raised when the Stamp Act was re- pealed ...
... troops were stationed in New York and Boston in the hope to keep the peo- ple quiet . But the effect was just the other way . In New York the soldiers cut down the liberty - pole , which had been raised when the Stamp Act was re- pealed ...
Page 167
... troops trouble you again , they shall be punished . " But the British troops in Boston very soon got into more serious trouble . The young men of the town リビ used often to insult the red - coated soldiers , calling them " lobsters ...
... troops trouble you again , they shall be punished . " But the British troops in Boston very soon got into more serious trouble . The young men of the town リビ used often to insult the red - coated soldiers , calling them " lobsters ...
Page 169
... troops were soon removed to the barracks at Castle William , and were not allowed to stray about the streets . But this blood- shed never was forgotten ; and the " Boston Massacre " was another step towards the Revolutionary War . 66 ...
... troops were soon removed to the barracks at Castle William , and were not allowed to stray about the streets . But this blood- shed never was forgotten ; and the " Boston Massacre " was another step towards the Revolutionary War . 66 ...
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Page 320 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 357 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 305 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 305 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 347 - Sect. 4. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to th.e places of choosing senators.
Page 342 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 118 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 155 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 218 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more, Welcome to this grateful shore: Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers; Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers.
Page 320 - The Almighty has. His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offences ! for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.