... War of 1812 as the most important ofthe many that were waged. These three were, first, the battle of Tippecanoe, regarded as the opening scene ofthe bloody drama; second, thebattleofthe ... not reprehensible. The cause of the retreat the Court attributes to the shameful flight ofthe command of Major Arnaud, sent to oppose the landing of the enemy. The retreat ofthe Kentucky militia, ... no other party, the incident ofthebattle and defeatwould have been mentioned and passed without comment. THE COVERT RETREAT OFTHE BRITISH. The battles ofthe eighth were decisive ofthe campaign,...
... seen the work of their guns upon the same occasion, Iwas gratified to see these things. Along the slope of Culp's Hill, in front ofthe position ofthe 12th, and the 1stDivision ofthe ... front ofthe left ofthe Second Corps, away down to the front of Round Top,and the fight rages with the greatest fury. The fire of artillery and infantry and the yells ofthe Rebels fill the air ... description. The line ofbattle as it was established, on the evening ofthe first, and morning of the second of July was in the form ofthe letter "U," the troops facing outwards. And the "Cemetery,"...
... as the command abandoned the camp, the Indians reoccupied it, and under the fire of the sharpshooters, hauled down several of their teepees, hastily bundled together the greater portion of theirplunder, ... Thirteen of his seventeen officers were veterans ofthe war of the Rebellion, as were nearly all the citizen volunteers. The other four officers, and nearly all the enlistedmen had seen years of hard ... good prices as relics ofthe battle. Several of them werebadly stained with blood, but this, of course, enhanced, rather than lessened, their value in the eyes ofthe class of buyers he sought.Captain...
... upon the mother-land, upon the avarice ofthe throne, the cupidity of Englishmerchants and the power of English guns and cannon.By the year 1790, therefore, slavery in the North had either ... the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the kidnapping of African slaves, and the sale of these men to the sugar and cotton planters ofthe West Indies and of America. Even the stories of ... been offered providing for the reception ofthe State of Orleans into the Union. The people of New Orleans spoke the French language,lived under the code of Napoleon, were monarchial in their...
... left the rumble ofthe wheels while the artillery and the wagons were pulling out, and much ofthe time could beheard the dull tread of many feet and the clicking of accoutrements that told ofthe ... captain ofthe regiment, he relates how the officers ofthe regiment triedto stop the flying troops, and taunted their officers with the bad example they were setting their men; how the regiment ... The 97th Ohio, of Lane's brigade, was to the left ofthe battery, in front of SpringHill, with the left ofthe 97th extending towards Mount Carmel road. The 100th Illinois was on the other...
... all the provinces, forced the giants to fly into the caves ofthe mountains, and divided the countryamong them according to the directions of their commander. After thisthey began to till the ... this time Eli the priest governed in Judea, and the ark ofthe covenant was taken by the Philistines. At the same time,also, the sons of Hector, after the expulsion ofthe posterity of Antenor,reigned ... Sylvius Aeneas, the son of Aeneas, the uncle of Brutus, and the third king ofthe Latins.22Geoffrey of Monmouthit not to them, but pardon it; since it is the common sentiment of everycaptive,...
... reported by the post-office committee ofthe House of Representatives, and “printed by order ofthe House:” “And it shall be lawful for the agents ofthe post-office, or other officers ofthe United ... Sir, I have the pleasure to send you the copy of a paper I have prepared, at the request of Mr. Webb, of Boston, to show the progress of increase ofthe number of letters by the post-office here, ... to the question of taxing the correspondence of the thickly settled parts ofthe country for the purpose of raising means to defray the expense of sending mails to the new and distant parts of...
... Variableness of our Weather, ( om our Situation amidst the Ocean) the Rankness and Fertility of our Soil, the Richness and Heaviness of our Food, the We a lth and Abundance ofthe Inhabitants ( om their ... nature of their publications on the nerves. e sphere of in uence of various doctors was also taken into account through an examination ofthe number of editions of their publications, their ... the major-ity of publications on nervous disease in the second half ofthe century that most doctors simply agreed to disagree on the speci cs of nerve theory and the precise de nition of...
... estimates. The sampling variance ofthe summary measure is then a function of the sampling variances ofthe individual items obtained via SUR estimation. Under the null hypothesisthat the standardized ... as the fraction ofthe cohort dying between the specified ages multiplied by 1000 where the denominator is the size ofthe cohort at birth. Points represent the death rate for each month -of- birth ... waves (1991-2004) ofthe Health Survey of England. The vertical lines are cutoffs corresponding to the first cohorts subject to the new compulsory schooling laws. The first of these took effect...
... revealing of a lost way of life and of opportunities fore-gone. The impact of these interviews is made as much by implication orindirectly as by the overt expression of emotion. The necessity of the ... to allow for the inter-pretation of memory by the interviewee in the light ofthe totality of hisor her life experiences. In other words, the narrator is trying to makesense ofthe dramatic ... begin on the eve of the Second World War and follow them, in a succession of chapters,through the catastrophes ofthe early years and the less eventful period of peaceful resettlement in Britain. 8...