The ''''''''Patriotes'''''''' of ''''''''37 A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion doc

... had their 'Sons of Liberty,' Lower Canada had its 'Fils de la Liberté' an association formed in Montreal in the autumn of 1837. And the Lower Canada Patriotes outstripped the ... asserts that the said constitution has conferred on the two Canadas the institutions of Great Britain.' With an extraordinary lack of tact they assured the king...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... tempting was the foreign war trade, that a fleet of them was sent across the Atlantic until the American Government barred them from the war zone as too easy a prey for submarine attack. They therefore ... shipmasters who had the gift of writing. Captain Amasa Delano, "Narrative of Voyages and Travels" (1817). Another of the rare human documents of blu...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... available the wonderful riches of the inland country, across the Appalachian barrier and around the Great Lakes, into which American pioneers had already made their way. Those immemorial pathways, ... looking at the nearest parallel in the facts of history, each of us may make his own guess. The airship appears now to be much farther advanced than the steamboat was for m...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at the end of t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... because 'It will please your whole army, as it shows them the way to gain by their gallantry the hearts and affections of the Ladys.' And even a city of the 'Great Awakening,' ... hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a great deal of goodwill, in spite of the fact that his 'Admiral's eighth...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... had penetrated along the easy pathway of the plains. South of the great granaries of North America and Eurasia the plains are broken, but occur again in the Orinoco region of South America ... hollow and the ridges of Africa and Australia on either hand. The last of the four sides contains the Atlantic Ocean and is bounded by Africa and Europe on one hand an...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... the Governor-General of Acadia or Nova Scotia as lieutenant of the region east of the St. Croix, and another, Charles de Menou, Sieur d'Aulnay-Charnisé, as lieutenant of the region between the St. Croix and ... large part to the mother country. She established councils and committees of trade and plantations, and, by the seizure of New Netherland in 1664 and th...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... miles east and west. This is the Great Slave Lake; Hearne speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake. The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) the word ... beyond the basin of the Saskatchewan and the Columbia emptied towards the north. Hearne had revealed the existence of the Great Slave Lake, and the advance of daring f...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... Marshall was thrown into occasional contact, and that was his father's patron and patron saint, Washington. The appeal made to the lad's imagination by the great Virginian, was deep and ... Senate. A week later the Senate ratified the nomination, and on the 4th of February Marshall accepted the appointment. The task despaired of by Jay and abandoned by Ell...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... Maclay as a lawyer's wrangle. The bill was put into shape by the Senate, and reached the House toward the close of the session when the struggle over the site of the national capital was ... protect the ports, and to increase the naval armament; and Adams was placed in a much better position to maintain neutrality than Washington had been. Fear of another...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20