The Story of DetroitDetroit News, 1923 - 764 Seiten |
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... United States in 1796. In 1812 Detroit was disgracefully surrendered again to Great Britain , but 14 months later , in September , 1813 , it was recovered to American possession . Not only did France , Great Britain and the United ...
... United States in 1796. In 1812 Detroit was disgracefully surrendered again to Great Britain , but 14 months later , in September , 1813 , it was recovered to American possession . Not only did France , Great Britain and the United ...
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... United States have been the direct or indirect results of corrupt practice in remote trad- ing posts . Commandant Alphonse Tonty at Detroit adopted a get - rich - quick policy . The Indians were plied with liquor and badly cheated ...
... United States have been the direct or indirect results of corrupt practice in remote trad- ing posts . Commandant Alphonse Tonty at Detroit adopted a get - rich - quick policy . The Indians were plied with liquor and badly cheated ...
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... United States later gave them a grant of 4,000 acres at New Philadelphia , O. , where they remained until 1807 . The Revolutionary War went badly for both parties in the contention . It was more a contest of persistence and endurance ...
... United States later gave them a grant of 4,000 acres at New Philadelphia , O. , where they remained until 1807 . The Revolutionary War went badly for both parties in the contention . It was more a contest of persistence and endurance ...
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... United Empire Loyalists , and they became important factors in the subsequent development of New Brunswick , Nova Scotia and the province of Ontario . Many prominent families of Can- ada of the present day proudly trace their ancestry ...
... United Empire Loyalists , and they became important factors in the subsequent development of New Brunswick , Nova Scotia and the province of Ontario . Many prominent families of Can- ada of the present day proudly trace their ancestry ...
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... United States was not completed in the draft until Sept. 17 , 1787 . The Ordinance of 1787 contained a prohibition of slavery in the new territory , which was the first enactment of the kind in the new world . It declared that ...
... United States was not completed in the draft until Sept. 17 , 1787 . The Ordinance of 1787 contained a prohibition of slavery in the new territory , which was the first enactment of the kind in the new world . It declared that ...
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Seite 547 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Seite xviii - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Seite 37 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.
Seite vi - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Seite 72 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Seite 330 - Pennsylvania line aforesaid ; provided, always, and it is hereby fully understood and declared by this convention, that if the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan should extend so far south that a line drawn due east from it should not intersect Lake Erie, or if it should intersect...
Seite 37 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me...
Seite 177 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Seite 90 - Ohio" confirmed the provision of 1785, and declared that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged.
Seite 37 - And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. "Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town...