A Junior Class History of the United States: To which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, with Questions, Exercises, Copious Notes, Etc. ...E. Maynard, 1890 - 307 páginas |
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... British Museum . Another copy was procured by the Hon . Charles Sumner , during his last visit to Europe . It is not known that there is a third copy in existence . The work is in Latin . Map Questions . - Where is Florida ? ( Map , p ...
... British Museum . Another copy was procured by the Hon . Charles Sumner , during his last visit to Europe . It is not known that there is a third copy in existence . The work is in Latin . Map Questions . - Where is Florida ? ( Map , p ...
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... British vessels , and they were not allowed to ship any of their staple products to any country except England . This law caused great discontent in the colony ; and was the means of exciting a rebellion called Bacon's Rebellion , from ...
... British vessels , and they were not allowed to ship any of their staple products to any country except England . This law caused great discontent in the colony ; and was the means of exciting a rebellion called Bacon's Rebellion , from ...
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... British were quartered near it during the war of American In- dependence , their general so respected it , that , when his soldiers were cutting down every tree for firewood , he placed a sentinel under it that not a branch of it might ...
... British were quartered near it during the war of American In- dependence , their general so respected it , that , when his soldiers were cutting down every tree for firewood , he placed a sentinel under it that not a branch of it might ...
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... British regular soldiers , to take command of all the forces in the colonies . Several expeditions were arranged against the French forts in different parts of the country ; one of them , against Fort du Quesne , led by Braddock himself ...
... British regular soldiers , to take command of all the forces in the colonies . Several expeditions were arranged against the French forts in different parts of the country ; one of them , against Fort du Quesne , led by Braddock himself ...
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... British soldiers ap- proached , he felt for his watch , intending to give it to them in order to insure kind treatment ; but one of them , thinking he was searching for a pistol , shot him , inflicting an incurable wound . He was taken ...
... British soldiers ap- proached , he felt for his watch , intending to give it to them in order to insure kind treatment ; but one of them , thinking he was searching for a pistol , shot him , inflicting an incurable wound . He was taken ...
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Página 9 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 8 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 248 - MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton NORTH CAROLINA William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn SOUTH CAROLINA Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton GEORGIA Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton...
Página 97 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony...
Página 10 - Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George...
Página 152 - ... first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen...
Página 198 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Página 140 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Página 76 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.
Página 101 - Six years after the arrival of Winthrop, the general court voted a sum, equal to a year's rate of the whole colony, towards the erection of a college. In 1638, John Harvard, who arrived in the bay only to fall a victim to the most wasting disease of the climate, desiring to...