... descendants ofthe old stock.That the young men of your brigade should have looked up to you in thehourof battle, as their guide and their shield, is only a continuation of that confidence which their ... 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,...
... seen the work oftheir 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 ... whose bullets smote him, and of being the only horse there during the heat of the battle. Even the enemy noticed Dick, and one oftheir reports ofthebattle mentions the "solitaryhorseman" ... oftheir commands toreinforce Webb. I galloped to the left in the execution of my purpose, and as I attained the rear of Hall's line,from the nature ofthe ground and the position of the...
... tracks. Thus did two of the three murderers who were said to have brought on the war pay the penalty oftheir crimes with their ownblood. The implied wish oftheir chief that they might be killed ... as the command abandoned the camp, the Indians reoccupied it, and under the fire of the sharpshooters, hauled down several oftheir teepees, hastily bundled together the greater portion of their plunder, ... 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...
... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... fields theycould see just what we had. They pulled down the rims oftheir old hats over their eyes, bent their heads to the storm of missiles pouring upon them, changed direction to their right ... 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 of the...
... y)iscontinuousforally ∈ B1,wethenrealize that the restriction of f to X0× B1satisfies the hypotheses of Theorem 3, B1beingconsidered with the relativization ofthe strong topology. Hence, the multifunction ... (25)Then, there exists x∗∈ Brsuch that A(x∗) = 0.Proof. Identifying E with E∗,weapplyTheorem 1 taking X = Br, with the relativization of the weak topolog y of E, and taking τ as the ... as the weak topology of E.Duetothekind of continuity we are assuming for A, the function x →A(x),x turns out to be weaklycontinuous (see the proof of Theorem 12), and so the set C isweaklyclosed.Now,letψ...
... loading themselves with the prey whichthey had taken in hunting, they return to their ships, and give their companions an account of this country and city. Then they advised their leader to go to the ... all the provinces, forced the giants to fly into the caves ofthe mountains, and divided the countryamong them according to the directions oftheir commander. After thisthey began to till the ... beneath the dignity of a nationdescended from the illustrious race of Dardanus, to be treated in yourkingdom otherwise than the nobility oftheir birth required, they havebetaken themselves to the...
... suffered toenjoy their own in peace. The two kings therefore, taking hostages of them, yielded to their petition, and drew back their forces into Germany.While they were employing their arms in ... young men of great spirit, whereof one, namedMargan, was born to Maglaunus, and the other, named Cunedagius, toHenuinus. These, after the death oftheir fathers, succeeding them in their dukedoms, ... clear the law of all ambiguities, summoned all the workmen ofthe islandtogether, and commanded them to pave a causeway of stone and mortar,which should run the whole length ofthe island, from the...
... mercy to me.Ó63Geoffrey of Monmouthreconcile them with presents. To the common people he promised liberty,to the dispossessed the restitution oftheir estates, and to the slaves their freedom. ... whom the whole world could not withstand. HenceLucan in their praise says of Caesar,62Geoffrey of Monmouthlarge part of it to them. For he bestowed the city of Trinovantum, with the dukedom of ... Androgeus; and the dukedom of Cornwall onTenuantius. But he himself, as possessing the crown, had the sovereigntyover them, and all the other princes ofthe island.53Geoffrey of Monmouthnews of his...
... of them. Among others of both sexes who continued firm in the army of Christ, and suffered, wereAlban of Verulam, and Julius and Aaron, both ofthe City of Legions. Of these, Alban, out ofthe ... them. And the rest ofthe cities and towns soonfollowed their example; so that there was an easy entrance into them for the Britons, who wherever they entered killed all they found left of the male ... all their might under the conduct of Fulgenius,and often made great slaughter both oftheir own countrymen and of the Romans. For Fulgenius, brought to his assistance all the people of the 72Geoffrey...
... they ought to a ply themselves to the use of arms, and to fight bravely in defending to the utmost oftheir power, their country, riches wives, children, and, what is dearer than all these, their ... fleet to their country, and there, speedilyencountered the enemy. At last, after the slaughter of a vast multitude of them, they drove them entirely out ofthe country, and rescued the miserable ... in the name ofthe rest, made the following answer:ÑÒMost noble king, Saxony, which is one ofthe countries of Germany,was the place of our birth; and the occasion of our coming was to offerour...