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... Navy in the Revolution . . The Campaign in the South , 1778-1781 . The Treaty of Peace • Civil Progress during the Revolution CHAPTER X. THE FIRST YEARS OF PEACE , 1783-1787 Financial Embarrassments • Industry and Trade after the War ...
... Navy in the Revolution . . The Campaign in the South , 1778-1781 . The Treaty of Peace • Civil Progress during the Revolution CHAPTER X. THE FIRST YEARS OF PEACE , 1783-1787 Financial Embarrassments • Industry and Trade after the War ...
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... Navy · • Land Operations against Santiago The Destruction of the Spanish Squadron Reflections on the War in Cuba Peace Negotiations . • Subsequent Relations with Cuba CHAPTER XXXIX . EXPANSION AND ITS PROBLEMS : The Philippines as an ...
... Navy · • Land Operations against Santiago The Destruction of the Spanish Squadron Reflections on the War in Cuba Peace Negotiations . • Subsequent Relations with Cuba CHAPTER XXXIX . EXPANSION AND ITS PROBLEMS : The Philippines as an ...
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... navy . With the advance of the eighteenth century capital played a relatively larger part in the cod fisheries ; larger ships were used , and wealthy Whaling . men who furnished outfits became a chief factor in the in- dustry . Out of ...
... navy . With the advance of the eighteenth century capital played a relatively larger part in the cod fisheries ; larger ships were used , and wealthy Whaling . men who furnished outfits became a chief factor in the in- dustry . Out of ...
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... navy . They were skillful sailors , helping to con- quer the Shetland Islands , and about 1394 they made a voyage to Vinland . The Zeno Brothers , Greenland . Stories of a great land to the west 23 THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF ...
... navy . They were skillful sailors , helping to con- quer the Shetland Islands , and about 1394 they made a voyage to Vinland . The Zeno Brothers , Greenland . Stories of a great land to the west 23 THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF ...
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... navy . As further notice of the unyielding intention of the British , Falmouth , Maine ( Portland ) , was burned in October and Norfolk , Vir- ginia , on January 1 , 1776. At this time the second continental congress was sitting in a ...
... navy . As further notice of the unyielding intention of the British , Falmouth , Maine ( Portland ) , was burned in October and Norfolk , Vir- ginia , on January 1 , 1776. At this time the second continental congress was sitting in a ...
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Page 316 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Page 589 - Now you are about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom.
Page 737 - ... the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law.
Page 369 - ... we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
Page 769 - I am nevertheless firm in my conviction that while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great English-speaking peoples of the world as being otherwise than friendly competitors in the onward march of civilization, and strenuous and worthy rivals in all the arts of peace, there is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor beneath which are shielded and defended...
Page 80 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 421 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of...
Page 162 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 279 - That the several States who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and, That a nullification, by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy...
Page 239 - The large States dare not dissolve the Confederation. If they do the small ones will find some foreign ally of more honor and good faith, who will take them by the hand and do them justice.