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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... army on the shores of Mexico in 1519 ; and , in order to compel his men to think only of conquest , by cutting off all hope of return , he destroyed his ships . He then marched through the country to the capital , situated about two ...
... army on the shores of Mexico in 1519 ; and , in order to compel his men to think only of conquest , by cutting off all hope of return , he destroyed his ships . He then marched through the country to the capital , situated about two ...
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... army of about six hundred men , he set sail for the New World in 1538. After stopping at Cuba and leaving his wife to govern that island , he sailed to Florida , and in the summer of 1539 , commenced his march towards the fancied land ...
... army of about six hundred men , he set sail for the New World in 1538. After stopping at Cuba and leaving his wife to govern that island , he sailed to Florida , and in the summer of 1539 , commenced his march towards the fancied land ...
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... army from New York ; but it was not suc- cessful . These expeditions were under the command of Sir William Phipps , who was afterwards made governor of Mas- sachusetts . 11. Queen Anne's War . - Five years had scarcely elapsed since ...
... army from New York ; but it was not suc- cessful . These expeditions were under the command of Sir William Phipps , who was afterwards made governor of Mas- sachusetts . 11. Queen Anne's War . - Five years had scarcely elapsed since ...
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... army from a surprise by the Indians . 23. Thus he rashly pushed on till about ten miles from the fort , when the soldiers ' ears were suddenly assailed by the savage war - whoop , and a deadly fire was poured into their * Fifteen ...
... army from a surprise by the Indians . 23. Thus he rashly pushed on till about ten miles from the fort , when the soldiers ' ears were suddenly assailed by the savage war - whoop , and a deadly fire was poured into their * Fifteen ...
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... army . His escape was wonderful , for he had two horses shot Panic and disorder ensued ; the under him , and four balls passed through his coat . Braddock died on reaching the Great Meadows , forty miles from the scene of the disaster ...
... army . His escape was wonderful , for he had two horses shot Panic and disorder ensued ; the under him , and four balls passed through his coat . Braddock died on reaching the Great Meadows , forty miles from the scene of the disaster ...
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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...