The Story of OhioD. Lothrop Company, 1888 - 326 páginas |
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... sides of the Ohio just below the Scioto . After Gist's visit they were found further up the Scioto and in the Miami Valley . They had sought the friend- ship of the Miamis on first entering the valley of the Ohio . The company now began ...
... sides of the Ohio just below the Scioto . After Gist's visit they were found further up the Scioto and in the Miami Valley . They had sought the friend- ship of the Miamis on first entering the valley of the Ohio . The company now began ...
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... side of the Atlantic , but neither side was ready to yield anything . The people on this side of the Atlantic were in very much the same frame of mind . Now that there had been bloodshed the colonists resolved upon sending a formal ...
... side of the Atlantic , but neither side was ready to yield anything . The people on this side of the Atlantic were in very much the same frame of mind . Now that there had been bloodshed the colonists resolved upon sending a formal ...
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... sides . It was a wretchedly feeble fight and both parties were glad to end it . Washington had no chance of holding out , and readily accepted a suggestion of surrender on very easy terms . A Dutchman named Van Braam , one of the ...
... sides . It was a wretchedly feeble fight and both parties were glad to end it . Washington had no chance of holding out , and readily accepted a suggestion of surrender on very easy terms . A Dutchman named Van Braam , one of the ...
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... sides was keenly felt by the chiefs . " Why , " they exclaimed to Post , why did you not fight your battles at home or on the sea , instead of coming into our country to fight them ? " It was galling to the Indians that 54 FRANCE WINS ...
... sides was keenly felt by the chiefs . " Why , " they exclaimed to Post , why did you not fight your battles at home or on the sea , instead of coming into our country to fight them ? " It was galling to the Indians that 54 FRANCE WINS ...
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... side the limits of the valley whose history belongs to the story of Ohio . Within two years Crown Point , Ticonderoga , Niagara and Quebec had been taken and all Canada was given up to the English by the French Governor Vaudreuil . It ...
... side the limits of the valley whose history belongs to the story of Ohio . Within two years Crown Point , Ticonderoga , Niagara and Quebec had been taken and all Canada was given up to the English by the French Governor Vaudreuil . It ...
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Página 311 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Página 190 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.
Página 89 - We are accustomed . . . to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; 80 FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Página 133 - All these orders were obeyed with spirit and promptitude ; but such was the impetuosity of the charge by the first line of infantry...
Página 239 - John, between them, I somehow see, When my eyes are shut, with a little board at his head in Tennessee. But William came home one morning early, from Gettysburg, last July, (The mowing was over already, although the only mower was I :) William, my captain, came home for good to his mother ; and I'll be bound We were proud and cried to see the flag that wrapt his coffin around ; For a company from the town came up ten miles with music and gun : It seemed his country claimed him then — as well as...
Página 73 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 48 - After taking Fort Duquesne," said he, "I am to proceed to Niagara; and having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.
Página 257 - And after them tumble the mixer ; For a poison malign Is such Borgia wine, Or at best but a Devil's Elixir. While pure as a spring Is the wine I sing, And to praise it, one needs but name it ; For Catawba wine Has need of no sign, No tavern-bush to proclaim it.
Página 112 - authorized to dispose of a very large body of land" in the West. In 1790, this gentleman distributed proposals in Paris, for the sale of lands, at five shillings per acre, which promised, says VOlney, " a climate healthy and delightful ; scarcely such a thing as frost in winter ; a river called, by way of eminence,
Página 133 - ... from all their coverts in so short a time, that, although every possible exertion was used by the officers of the second line of the Legion, and by Generals Scott...