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... Tryal and carry, in hand-to-hand conflict, the barricades of water-casks and bales of matting which the slaves had built across the deck There was no hanging back, and even a mite of a midshipman ... and Peru, and incidentally recaptured a Spanish ship which was in the hands of the slaves who formed her cargo This was all in the day's work and happened at...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month A preliminary ... finally determined his career His older brother James was a printer, and in those days a printer was a literary man as well as a mechanic The editor of a...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... 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 the railroads, the farmers' animosity, though it was ... one-third in the East That the movement, even in the East, was largely agrarian, is indicated by the famous argument of Solon Chase, chairman of the party conv...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... farther off, bounty-fed engages from France, and a swarm of camp-following traders The regular garrison was always somewhat of a class apart The French in Cape Breton needed all the artificial ... fellow-countrymen,' a hearty generosity all round, and a special hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a great deal of goo...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... 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 and the Sahara of Africa Thence they ... of the Appalachians, begins on the south side of the Mohawk Valley To the north its place is taken by the Adirondacks, which are an outlier of the great L...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... man, had made the grand tour of the Continent, and was familiar with official traditions and the ways of the court Soon after his arrival in England, he became a member of the Royal Society and ... if the hand of God lay heavily upon New England, and days of humiliation and prayer were appointed to assuage the wrath of the Almighty A Massachusetts act of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... from America over the vast space that led to the island archipelago of Eastern Asia Far towards the northern end of the great island, the fishermen of the Channel ports had found their way in yearly ... northern seas The eastern passage, from the German Ocean round the top of Russia and Asia, was first attempted As early as the reign of Edward the Sixth, a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... father, Thomas Marshall, was "a planter of narrow fortune" and modest lineage and a pioneer Fauquier was then on the frontier, and a few years after John was born the family moved still farther ... great planter with whom young Marshall was thrown into occasional contact, and that was his father's patron and patron saint, Washington The appeal made to the lad's i...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... President with his barge on the Jersey shore, and as the barge passed the Battery a salute of thirteen cannon was fired At the landing-place a large company was gathered, and the coach that took her ... sedan-chairs, and the attire of the people who then gathered was as brilliant as a flight of cockatoos It was a period of spectacular dress and behavior...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... congressional supporters of protection managed to have the war rates generally maintained and, in some cases, even increased The case is a typical example of the way in which advantage of strategic ... appropriation bills is always in order, and takes precedence of all other motions as to the order of business “ The practical effect of the rules was that, in...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... not exactly a suspension of the constitution of Lower Canada and a measure quite legally within the competency of the House of Commons, was a flat negative to the claim of the Lower- Canadian Assembly ... BRITISH CANADA 12 THE FATHER OF BRITISH CANADA By William Wood 13 THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS By W Stewart Wallace 14 THE WAR WITH THE UNITED STA...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... marriage, the first having taken place in 1749, of which the fruit was a son and a daughter Samuel Adams was then it was the year of the Sugar Act forty-two years old; that is to say, at the age ... advantageous to Britain It may be that the Spanish authorities regarded the West Indian trade as a commercial system rather than as a means of revenue This aspect of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... despise the Americans instead of fearing them, and were eager to take the warpath against so easy a prey Already other bands of braves were hastening from Lake Huron and from Mackinac, whose American ... Dearborn might carry out his own idea of an operation against Montreal at the same time as the Niagara campaign was in progress On the shore of Lake Champlain, Dearborn wa...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... exactly the same human powers and material tools as had always been available to the Californians Sutter himself was a rather short, thick-set man, exquisitely neat, of military bearing, carrying ... several trails The third was by the Isthmus of Panama Each of these two is worth a chapter, and we shall take up the overland migration first CHAPTER V ACROSS THE PLAINS...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... Canadian post in American hands On the sea the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon salved the pride of England The last year of the war was also a year of varying fortunes In the far West a ... developed in the Assembly after the War of 1812 was James Stuart, the son of the leading Anglican clergyman of his day, but he soon fell away and became...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20