The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison, Ninth President of the United StatesPorter & Coates, 1852 - 465 sider |
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... fire of the first line ; but this fire was returned with equal brisk- ness and fatal effect , and in a few minutes extended to the second . In each case the fire was principally directed to the centre , where the artillery was posted ...
... fire of the first line ; but this fire was returned with equal brisk- ness and fatal effect , and in a few minutes extended to the second . In each case the fire was principally directed to the centre , where the artillery was posted ...
Side 52
... fire was opened upon him by the enemy , secreted in grass and woods , as to cause him to fall back ; but the troops soon after came in view of the enemy . The Indians held a position admirably suited to their peculiar mode of warfare ...
... fire was opened upon him by the enemy , secreted in grass and woods , as to cause him to fall back ; but the troops soon after came in view of the enemy . The Indians held a position admirably suited to their peculiar mode of warfare ...
Side 53
... fire in line must prove equally unsuccessful . He therefore determined to commence the engagement by an attack at the point of the bayonet , and for this purpose he ordered his troops to march through the woods with trailed arms , and ...
... fire in line must prove equally unsuccessful . He therefore determined to commence the engagement by an attack at the point of the bayonet , and for this purpose he ordered his troops to march through the woods with trailed arms , and ...
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... fire more , and the day is ours . " This gallant young lieutenant , it will be un- derstood , was William Henry Harrison . By the official returns of the adjutant - general , it appears that the number of the Americans killed in the ...
... fire more , and the day is ours . " This gallant young lieutenant , it will be un- derstood , was William Henry Harrison . By the official returns of the adjutant - general , it appears that the number of the Americans killed in the ...
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... fire upon him as a pretext for attacking his fort . Having accomplished the object of his expedition , and so broken the power of the confederation as to discourage the Indians from immediately risking another battle , General Wayne ...
... fire upon him as a pretext for attacking his fort . Having accomplished the object of his expedition , and so broken the power of the confederation as to discourage the Indians from immediately risking another battle , General Wayne ...
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Side 372 - Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government; I wish them carried out; I ask nothing more...
Side 345 - They hover over and harass our entering and deporting commerce. To the most insulting pretensions they have added the most lawless proceedings in our very harbors, and have wantonly spilt American blood within the sanctuary of our territorial jurisdiction.
Side 345 - Not content with these occasional expedients for laying waste our neutral trade, the cabinet of...
Side 345 - ... carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong...
Side 295 - I shall now deliver, or, approving them, to doubt the sincerity with which they are now uttered. But the lapse of a few months will confirm or dispel their fears. The outline of principles to govern and measures to be adopted by an administration not yet begun will soon be exchanged for immutable history, and I shall stand either exonerated by my countrymen or classed with the mass of those who promised that they might deceive, and flattered with the intention to betray.
Side 306 - A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged. Upon another occasion I have given my opinion at some length upon the impropriety of Executive interference in the legislation of Congress — that the article in the Constitution making it the duty of the President to communicate information and...
Side 21 - June 1776, he submitted a resolution, declaring, " that the united colonies are and ought to be free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance, to the British crown ; and that all political connection, between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Side 345 - ... declaration of the fact, that the blockade did not exist. The declaration would have been consistent with her avowed principles of blockade, and would have enabled the United States to demand from France the pledged...
Side 297 - It would not become me to say that the fears of these patriots have been already realized; but as I sincerely believe that the tendency of measures and of men's opinions for some years past has been in that direction, it is, I conceive, strictly proper that I should take this occasion to repeat the assurances I have heretofore given of my determination to arrest the progress of that tendency if it really exists and restore the Government to its pristine health and vigor, as far as this can be effected...