The Story of Detroit

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Detroit News, 1923 - 764 Seiten

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FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN IN RIVALRY
27
FRENCH FRONTIER FORTS 1750
30
BEGINNING OF BRITISH CONTROL
32
THE INDIANS FIGHT FOR THEIR HOMELAND
36
INDIAN WAR STRATEGY
41
PONTIAC ABANDONS HIS DIPLOMACY
45
CHIEF PONTIAC
47
DARK DAYS IN THE BESIEGED TOWN
51
DALZELLS DISASTEREND OF THE SIEGE
56
NIGHT ATTACK ON THE SCHOONER Gladwin
58
AFTERMATH OF PONTIACS SIEGE 16
61
DEATH OF PONTIAC
64
WAR CLOUDS LOOM IN THE EAST
67
OLDFASHIONED PRACTICE IN RUTHLESSNESS
71
BUILDing of Fort Lernoult
75
FORT LERNOult
76
PERSECUTION OF THE MORAVIANS
80
RECOVERY OF THE WESTERN TERRITORY
86
GEN ARTHUR ST CLAIR
87
DETROIT UNDER CANADIAN RULE
91
COURTHOUSE AT CHILLICOTHE
93
AMERICAN RULE Begins
97
DETROIT BECOMES AN INCORPORATED Town
103
SEEKERS AFTER GREAT LAND GRANTS III
111
ALL DETROIT DESTROYED BY FIRE
115
BEGINNING OF THE FIRE OF 1805
116
REIGN OF THE GOVERNOR AND JUDGES
120
ORIGINAL PLAN OF DETROIT STREETS
123
DETROITS FIRST Bank
125
TECUMSEH BECOMES A BRITISH ALLY
128
THE WAR OF 1812 BEGINS
132
DETROIT RIVER FRONT IN 1812
136
DETROIT SURRENDERED TO THE British
138
MASSACRE AT FORT DEARBORN
146
PREPARATIONS FOR RECOVERING Detroit
150
MASSACRE AT RIVER RAISIN
155
HOUSE OF FRANÇOIS NAVARRE RIVER RAISIN
156
VICTIMS OF BARBAROUS WARFARE
160
THE BUILDING OF PERRYS SHIPS
166
OLIVER HAZARD PERRYS VICTORY
171
BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE
172
AMERICAN INVASION OF CANADA
179
OLIVER HAZARD PERRY
180
Battle of the THAMES
185
Stories of THE CITY HALL Cannon
190
CITY HALL CANNON
193
FAMINE AND PESTILENCE IN Detroit
195
DETROITS LAST INDIAN MASSACRE
201
SUSPICIONS OF DISLOYALTY
206
JAMES ABBOTTS HOUSE
207
DETROIT BECOMES A CITY
210
EARLY PUBLIC WORKS
214
DETROITS WHIPPING POST
215
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL PROMOTIONS
219
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH IN MICHIGAN
222
FIRST NEWSPAPERS AND SECOND Bank
228
FIRST STEAMBOAT ON the Lakes
232
STORY OF THE WalkintheWater
238
A NEW ERA BEgins
245
LAND TREATIES WITH MICHIGAN INDIANS
249
THE TREATY OF SAGINAW
253
DETROIT IN 1818
259
A DECAde of Many CHANGES
265
EXPLORATIONSTHE FIRST STATE CAPITOL
271
ANTISLAVERY ACTIVITIES
321
THE Toledo Boundary War
329
SURREnder of ToleDOTHE CANadian Rebellion
335
THE PANIC OF 1837
343
EARLY RAILWAY PROMOTIONS
354
ERA of Wild Cat Banking
359
THE DETROIT PONTIAC RAILWAY
363
FIRST STATE ELECTIONGeological Survey
372
FOUNDING OF MICHIGANS EDUCATIONAL System
377
POLITical Campaign of 1840
384
PURCHASE OF THE POOR FARM
393
PRESIDENT VAN BUREN IN DETROIT 793
397
DISCOVERY OF IRON DEPOSITS
402
CHAPTER PAGE LXXIV DETROITS PASSION FOR FUNERALS
407
SALE OF MICHIGAN RAILWAYS
413
GRAPH
420
CRUDE CONVENIENCES OF EARLY DAYS
427
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
432
DETROIT FEMALE SEMINARY
438
EARLY DETROIT THEATERS
444
MICHIGANS MORMON COLONY
449
NOVEL LEGISLATION ANCIENT LANDMARKS
454
DETROITS EARLY GROWING PAINS
460
THE RAILWAY CONSPIRACYTOBACCO INDUSTRY
466
Development of the Stove INDUSTRY
472
EARLY HOSPItals and thE Y M C A
479
WATER SUPPLYTHROUGH TRANSPORTATION TO THE EAST
486
DETROITS FIRST CAPTAIN Of Industry
493
EVENTS OF THE 1850s
500
BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
505
THE CIVIL WAR
512
THE FIRE IN THE REAR
523
AFTERMATH OF THE CIVIL WAR
534
EVENTS OF THE 1860s
540
MEMORIAL DAYHISTORIC CONFLAGRATIONS
545
BRIDGE AND TUNNEL PROPOSALS
552
TELEPHONESLIGHTINGPARKS AND BOULEVARDS
559
BELLE ISLE PARK and the GRAND BOULEVARD
566
FOUR NOTABLE DETROITERS
571
CHANGES IN LAKE NAvigation
577
HAZEN S PINGREE ELECTED MAYOR
585
BEGINNing of the PINGREE RÉGIME
590
CONTEST FOR REDuced Lighting RATES
598
PROPOSALS FOR REFORMS IN TAXATION
609
THE PINGREE POTATO PATCHES
615
CONFLICT WITH STREET RAILWAY COMPANY
621
MUNICIPAL STREET RAILWAYSABOLITION OF OLD RAILWAY CHARTERS
631
THE SPANISHAMERICAN WAR
641
INDUSTRIAL BEGINNINGS OF DETROIT
650
SALT DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT
658
REFRIGERATOR CARS AND THE PACKING INDUSTRY
664
CHAPTER PAGE CXII DETROITS POLICE and Fire DEPARTMENTS
667
WHY PROHIBITIOn Carried in MICHIGAN
677
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
681
EDUCATION IN DETROIT
684
MOVING PICTURES AND NICKELODEONS
698
THE ERA OF BICYCLES AND AUTOMOBILES BEGINS
705
AUTOMOBILE HISTORYMADe in Detroit
712
DETROITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE World War
726
IN CONCLUSION
733
APPENDIX
738
INDEX
741
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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...

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