Life and Public Services of General Lewis Cass: Together with the Pamphlet on the Right of SearchMarkham & Elwood, 1852 - 420 Seiten |
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... reach him until five days after the event was communicated to the officers at Malden , and not until the day after the vessel had sailed from the Miami , with the invalids and baggage . The route to Detroit , passed along the margin of ...
... reach him until five days after the event was communicated to the officers at Malden , and not until the day after the vessel had sailed from the Miami , with the invalids and baggage . The route to Detroit , passed along the margin of ...
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... reach of the enemy's guns . They expected an attack and were pre- pared to resist it . The arrival of the British officers , and the report that Gen. Brock had demanded the surrender of the post , gave the first in- timation to the ...
... reach of the enemy's guns . They expected an attack and were pre- pared to resist it . The arrival of the British officers , and the report that Gen. Brock had demanded the surrender of the post , gave the first in- timation to the ...
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... reach , and yet were prevented by obedience to milita- ry discipline from obtaining a proud and glorious triumph over the presumptuous invaders - it was an order to retreat to the Fort . They reluctantly obeyed , and as they turned ...
... reach , and yet were prevented by obedience to milita- ry discipline from obtaining a proud and glorious triumph over the presumptuous invaders - it was an order to retreat to the Fort . They reluctantly obeyed , and as they turned ...
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... reach the Fort before any decisive movement occurred , that had not the laborious march of the day , and the fatigue of the soldiers prevented , he would have returned that night . At early dawn the next morning they started and ...
... reach the Fort before any decisive movement occurred , that had not the laborious march of the day , and the fatigue of the soldiers prevented , he would have returned that night . At early dawn the next morning they started and ...
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... reach of the army . But had we been totally destitute of provisions , our duty and our in- terest was undoubtedly to fight . The enemy invited us to meet him in the field . By defeating him the whole country would have been open to us ...
... reach of the army . But had we been totally destitute of provisions , our duty and our in- terest was undoubtedly to fight . The enemy invited us to meet him in the field . By defeating him the whole country would have been open to us ...
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Seite 414 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Seite 414 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Seite 374 - An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory.
Seite 366 - Constitution ; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences...
Seite 279 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Seite 374 - And the Governor, legislative Council, and House of Representatives shall have authority to make laws in all Cases for the good government of the district not repugnant to the principles and articles in this ordinance established and declared.
Seite 233 - Art. 2. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, at any time after the 20th of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this Convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice.
Seite 374 - Be it ordained, by the United States in Congress assembled, that the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Seite 108 - 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...
Seite 74 - The Governor and Judges, or a majority of them, were empowered to adopt such laws of the original states, civil and criminal as might be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the District.