The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to the Year 1826, Volumen 2Hilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... Washington seized that opportunity of taking the dimensions of the fort , and making all possible observation . Having received a written answer for the Virginia governor , he returned to Williamsburg . The answer of St. Pierre stated ...
... Washington seized that opportunity of taking the dimensions of the fort , and making all possible observation . Having received a written answer for the Virginia governor , he returned to Williamsburg . The answer of St. Pierre stated ...
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... Washington , who was appointed lieutenant colonel , marched ward Ohio . early in April with two companies , in advance of the other troops , to the Great Meadows , lying within the disputed territory . Here he learned by some friendly ...
... Washington , who was appointed lieutenant colonel , marched ward Ohio . early in April with two companies , in advance of the other troops , to the Great Meadows , lying within the disputed territory . Here he learned by some friendly ...
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... Washington , in retiring as the articles permitted , halted at Wills Creek , and assisted in erecting a fort there . The Virginians completed the fort , this year , and called it Fort Cumberland . They also formed a camp at Wills Creek ...
... Washington , in retiring as the articles permitted , halted at Wills Creek , and assisted in erecting a fort there . The Virginians completed the fort , this year , and called it Fort Cumberland . They also formed a camp at Wills Creek ...
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... Washington capitulated with the French at Fort Necessity . Exactly twenty two years afterward ( 4 July , 1776 ) , Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence , while Washington was successfully commanding the armies of America . The ...
... Washington capitulated with the French at Fort Necessity . Exactly twenty two years afterward ( 4 July , 1776 ) , Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence , while Washington was successfully commanding the armies of America . The ...
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... Washington , were ordered to join the British troops at Ray's town . Before the army was put in motion , major Grant was detached with 800 men , partly Brit- ish and partly provincials , to reconnoitre the fort and the adjacent country ...
... Washington , were ordered to join the British troops at Ray's town . Before the army was put in motion , major Grant was detached with 800 men , partly Brit- ish and partly provincials , to reconnoitre the fort and the adjacent country ...
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Página 277 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States ; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Página 277 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Página 347 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Página 418 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 197 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men!
Página 418 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 374 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Página 348 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Página 348 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Página 278 - Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...