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...llied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the army as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals ... ...s. When Russian Armenians recruited Turkish Armenians for the anti-Turkish Russian Army of the Caucasus, in April 1915, the elite of the Armenian c... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ... oust the newly independent Venezuela, he advocated the creation of a professional army (in the Cartagena Manifesto). Far from being a revolutionar... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ...dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the United states. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unifica... ...one by one, following secession conventions and state-wide votes. The Confederacy (Confederate States of America) was born only later. Not all the ... ...buying slaves from Africa), though it allowed interstate trade in slaves. The first Confederate capital was in Montgomery, Alabama - not in Richmond... ... was in Montgomery, Alabama - not in Richmond, Virginia. The term of office of the Confederate president - Jefferson Davis was the first elected - ...
... coincidental. All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America E0510 Library of Congress Control Number 20079098... ... Seems he spent a career in the Cavalry, fighting everything from Indians to Confederates, retiring as a Captain after the war. After that, he’d sp... ...r- lust. Maybe he was bored, but he’d talked of moving west for years. Law officers are usually practical men, not dreamers. Tom Rogers was a lit... ...h one of those big outfits there.” Captain continued, “When I got out of the Army I worked for a while in Dodge City. I was even a lawman there br...
... Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexico -- A slaughter of Mexicans while at their de... ...dition against Mexico -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- ... ... which was a large town called Syntra. This has also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that Spain and Barbara were at one time connected, and that the ... ...ved him with signs of hostility, which they manifested by cries and groans. He states that the island had three volcanoes which continually belched fo... ...arge quadruped, as elephant, rhinoceros, lion, or other dangerous beast, Hanno states that these sentinel snakes would proceed at once to the hut wher... ... hence promising great spoil to successful invaders. The ships carried a large army prepared for any dangerous enterprise, and sailing out through Gib... ...d defrauded pirates to assert their claim by force of arms. But Morgan and his confederates, having been sharp enough to defraud the Buccaneer army of... ...he leader had departed and with him went not only the hundred men who were his confederates in the robbery, but even a large share of the plunder that... ...nd Tortuga as poor as when they left, only to find that Morgan had tricked his confederates and after managing to get all the plunder into one vessel ...
...brary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ... ...ernoon warm, a lazy hunting dog at his feet. “I don’t understand how your army crossed the Alps in six or seven days.” “Five days,” he corrected me.... ...d there. I have seen some of it when I was collecting fossils. But for an army to get through, it seems impossible. You had cannons, horses, mules..... ...?” “Some say the Mount Genevre.” “He was a great tactical genius.” “Our army was well led...but there were times when I wished we had some of Hann... ...e terrible summer of ’82, when wheat fields were swept by gunfire, 20,000 Confederates died, the Union lost 16,000. Boys, mostly boys. Which General... ...d to show that the negro ought to be a slave—if he shall now fight in the Confederate Army to keep himself a slave, it will be a far better argument... ...white mas- ters. In the same year, there were 56,649 mulattoes in the free states; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the ... ...; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the slave states. During this year, the slave states had 348,847 mulattoes, all of h... ...the harbor of Charleston, S. C., surrendered yesterday, after 34 hours of Confederate bombardment. The 100 survivors, without food and ammunition......
...t the death of their Kings was ever devised and brought in use. All their confederates and n eighbours, all the slave-Helotes, men and women pell- me... ...orie of Verona, which was then enemie unto them, the greatest part of the army thought it expedient to demand a safe conduct for their passage of tho... ...ething else shouldest thou wreake thyselfe. Livius speaking of the Romane army in Spaine, after the losse of two great Captaines that were brethren. ... ...ing of Macedon, desirous to get so much time, as he wanted to prepare his army, gave out some motives of accord, wherewith the king inveagled, yeeld... ...m as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing all feare of hostile-action from them. But to the en... ...ces where the Portugales abated the pride of the Indians, they found some states observing this universall and inviolalile law, that what enemie soev... ...brio sibi habere videtur. -- 1 LUCRET. 1. v. 1243. A hidden power so mens states hath out-worne Faire swords, fierce scepters, signes of honours bor... ...awyers, breath- sellers, and pettifoggers, and joyned to the three ancient states, to wit, the Clergy, the Nobility, and the Communaltie; which fourt... ...ntaigne/1xxx.htm (6 of 11)4/10/2005 3:41:49 AM Montaigne's Essays who had confederated themselves with their adversaries, to use another kinde of dea...
... profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a banquet of Grand Army men at Saratoga, N. Y.. on March 20. Mr. Root was born at North Granvi... ...ellorsville. For several years he was vice-president of the Society of the Army of the Poto- mac and in 1892 was president of the Y, M. C. A. of White... ...e Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH si'lep... ...- similarities between the constitu- tioiis of Germany and of the L'liited States. It must be re raeinl)i!red, however, that the origi- nal sources an... ...ion to join with tlio class- ical associations of the middle and .southern states in the jniblica- tion of the classical journal al- ready established... ...the Worcester club, Worcester on Thursday evening, April 18. The following officers for the ensuing year were elected : President, George T. Dewey "79... ...0 class meeeting. 1.80 p. m.—Meeting of the Adelphic Union, J, H, Election officers for 1907-8. 3.00 p. m.—Annnal meeting of New England Intercollegia... ...Indian Medley" "Tha Cttorus Lady" "Blue Danube" f "Cupid la Captain of the Army' I "Hottentot Lova Sone" "Dream of Heaven" "La M«tlchlche" "Rich Mr. H... ...nty Williams men took part on the Union sideand twenty men fonght with the confederates in the Civil War. Collegfe Sing A college sing was held in Jes...
... 10: 1-936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: G... ...e out a war hero and raise more money for her cause. I never served in the Confederate army. But her rabble rousin’ Irish friends were impressed. ... ...hero and raise more money for her cause. I never served in the Confederate army. But her rabble rousin’ Irish friends were impressed. Thinkin’ she... ...“According to the law, any immigrant who has raised arms against the United States government is subject to deportation.” “But that’s ludicrous. T... ... let the golden liquid drizzle into her tea. “It may seem I’m expectin’ an army.” “What?” She was so startled by the idea that the saucer rattled... ...r full height, squaring her shoulders. “If you’ll excuse me, Mr. Comstock, Officers, I shall prepare myself for my incarceration. If you will allo... ...he exact location of each adventure on her own well-worn map of the Western states and territories. Morgan did not know when Dr. Hutchens said it... ... in the door way too often to be convincing. Had she pursued a career as a Confederate spy, the woman would not have made it past Bull Run. What ve...
...t Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstruct... ...d him in Soul. Sang Huin was always traveling--especially when he was in the States. He was discontent and was seeing himself falling further and furt... ...words and instruments which human beings employed to break from their innate states of emptiness; and the connections sought from attractions that wou... ...over him like smelling a fragrant flower or putting coins into the Salvation Army tin cans. If you were to hear someone preaching at you for two hour... ...ding herself with a bit of judo and karate, that she could never ward off an army of rapists. That being the case, she backed away to belong only to t... ...ive. It is a place for a young woman to hope that one of the American naval officers that she sells herself to will actually want more than a...como ... ... the ongoing red, turned right, and moved up a steep hill until she was at a Confederate cemetery; and that there on a gravel road in the thickets of ... ...re should be no reminder of him. Whatever can't burn can go to the Salvation Army. And about this man with the unmemorable name, if I can't say the n... ...anyhow as proven by how he had been treated at the airport. The immigration officers had put him through an inquisition suited to potential terrorist...
...n V olume Six of Seven Abraham Lincoln 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AN... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...ANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, before Richmond. PROCLAMATION REVOKING GENERAL HUNTER’... ...R OF MILITARY EMANCIPA- TION, MAY 19, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas there appears in the public print... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., August 14, 1862. OFFICER in charge of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio: It is believed that a Dr. J. J. ... ... slavery—the bone we are fighting over—and the full reinstatement of every Confederate citizen in all the rights of citizenship in our common country....
...hird section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the ...
........................................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ............................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... .................. 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FIN... ...afe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was founded, that these three adva... ... and then I knew that the Post-office had become a provision depot for the army. The official arrangements here for the public were so bad as to be ab... ...given. It no doubt may be said in excuse for this that the presence of the army round Washington caused, at that period, special inconvenience; and th... ...ho is or would be the present owner, bears high command in the army of the Confederates, and knows well by what tenure he holds or is likely to hold h... ... near Somerset, toward the south of the State. General Zollicoffer, with a Confederate army numbering, it was supposed, some eight thousand men, had a... ... killed, while his army was cut to pieces and dispersed; the cannon of the Confederates were taken, and their camp seized and destroyed. Their rout wa...
...VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.............................................................................
...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...y desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this power of self- preserva... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ...the Influence of the Executive Government External security of the Union – Army of six thousand men – Few ships – The President has no opportunity of ... ...frages of a great people; and this difficulty is enhanced in a republic of confederate States, where local influences are apt to preponderate. The mea... ...that of the justiciable parties is augmented. The aim of the legislator in confederate States ought therefore to be to render the position of the cour... ... but in the very nature of Fed- eral Governments. We have observed that in confederate peoples it is especially necessary to consolidate the judicial ...
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the libertie...
...UCELLE : commonly called Joan of Arc. Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants. (First Warder:) (Second W... ...eavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge t... ... fight it out. BEDFORD: Gloucester, why doubt’st thou of my forwardness? An army have I muster’d in my thoughts, Wherewith already France is overrun.... ... enraged he flew: The French exclaim’d, the devil was in arms; All the whole army stood agazed on him: His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit A Talb... ...ope quake. Messenger: So you had need; for Orleans is besieged; The English army is grown weak and faint: The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply, And h... ...F WINCHESTER’s men, and enter in the hurly burly the Mayor of London and his Officers .] Mayor: Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates, Thus... ... French, The scarecrow that affrights our children so. Then broke I from the officers that led me, And with my nails digg’d stones out of the ground, ... ...n’s grace, His new come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc, Nor any of his false confederates. BEDFORD: ’Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began, ... ...ene iv 76 With letters of commission from the king. For know, my lords, the states of Christendom, Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils, Hav...
...Excerpt: BEDFORD. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry?s death! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne?er lost a king of so much worth...
...h black, yield day to night; 10 Comets importing change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And w... ...11 Bed. Gloster, why doubtst thou of my forwardnesse? 112 An Army haue I muster’d in my thoughts, 113 Wherewith already France is o... ... The French exclaym’d, the Deuill was in Armes, 138 All the whole Army stood agaz’d on him. 139 His Souldiers spying his vndaunted Spiri... ... 3.Mess. So you had need, for Orleance is besieg’d, 170 The English Army is growne weake and faint: 171 The Earle of Salisbury craueth sup... ... and enter in the hurly- burly the Maior 427 of London, and his Officers. 428 Maior. Fye Lords, that you being supreme Magistrates... ... Scar- Crow that affrights our Children so. 511 Then broke I from the Officers that led me, 512 And with my nayles digg’d stones out of the ... ...new- come Champion, vertuous Ioane of Acre, 792 Nor any of his false Confederates. 793 Bedf. ’Tis thought Lord Talbot, when the fight ... ...will we take some order in the Towne, 1573 Placing therein some expert Officers, 1574 And then depart to Paris, to the King, 1575 For ther... ... With Letters of Commission from the King. 2737 For know my Lords, the States of Christendome, 2738 Mou’d with remorse of these out- ragious b...
..., the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset. Bedford. Hung be y heavens with black, yield day to night; Comets importing change of Times and States, Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, And with them scourge the bad revolting Stars, That have consented unto Henries death: King Henry the Fift, too famous to live long, England ne?re lost a King of so much wor...
...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ... proper ones. Iowa, having an entire Union delegation, will be one of the States the attempt will be made, if upon any. The Gover- nor doubtless has... ...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...ADE EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Samuel Wellers, private in Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsyl-... ...or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Government; all who have left judicial stations under the Unite... ...ll who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government above the rank of colonel in the army or of lieutena... ...transfer of McClellan’s army from the Potomac, where it had confronted the Confederates at Manassas. See H. J. Raymond: Life of Lincoln, p. 772] whic...
...dvocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes us... ...n is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question foreve... ...in that year there were over four hundred thousand mulattoes in the United States. Now let us take what is called an Abolition State—the Republican, s... ...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...your true friend and sincere well-wisher, A. LINCOLN. EARLY INFORMATION ON ARMY DEFECTION IN SOUTH TO D. HUNTER. (Private and Confidential.) SPRINGFIE... ...to pursue in regard to the 218 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five Confederate States. “Adopted by the Convention of the State of Virginia, Ri... ...rto recognition has been moved only on the assump- tion that the so-called Confederate States are de facto a self- sustaining power. Now, after long f... ...ation, in the character of 249 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five confederate States, was already invoking recognition, aid, and intervention...
...e Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will not fail so swim On the... ...actions of his former life. Theseus was now fifty years old, as Hellanicus states, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Som... ...e of Academus. But Dicaearchus writes that there were two Arcadians in the army of Castor and Pollux, the one called Echedemus and the other Marathus;... ...they took that none should suffer any injury, though there was so great an army within the walls; for the phrase anakos ekhein is used of those who lo... ...But Romulus seemed rather to act by counsel, and to show the sagacity of a statesman, and in all his dealings with their neighbors, whether relating t... ...ferable, were he not chastised, first rose up in arms, and with a powerful army advanced against him. Romulus likewise prepared to receive him; but wh... ...nterprise; but Sphaerus assures us that there were but twenty-eight of the confederates at first; perhaps there is some mystery in the number, which c... ... Athenians the glory of alike surpassing their enemies in valor, and their confederates in wisdom. As soon as the Persian armada arrived at Aphetae, E... ...his own dominions; and in the mean time would cause delays, and hinder the confederates from pursuing him. Xerxes no sooner heard this, but, being ver...
...is ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook, while Marius led the army, to spy out the enemy’s camp. Procuring a Celtic dress, and acquaintin... ... end, when the slaves whom Marius had freed at his landing to increase his army, being made not only his fellow-soldiers in the war, but also now his ... ... pretending friendship, and putting him in hopes of a peace, corrupted his army, and Scipio could not be made sensible of this, although often forewar... ...ar of being en- compassed, and yet being ashamed to desert his friends and confederates in their extreme danger, was thus forced to sit still, and see... ...esired him immediately to put their designs in execution. And when all the confederates had con- sented to it, they provided a messenger who brought f... ...magogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta. Having passed the Hellespont, he marche... ...ectly into Boeotia, and at the same time sent to their allies for aid. The confederates were very tardy in the business, and unwilling to engage, but ... ... ascendant which he had over Crassus; for he, the wealthiest among all the states- men of his time, and the most eloquent and greatest too, who had lo... ...d in the administration of justice, In deciding controversies of kings and States; and where he himself could not be present in person, he gave commis...
...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...te man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giv ing the ... ...nstructions to the leadsmen, another messenger was sent to whisper among the officers, and then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke stack where ... ...d his first war experience in the Belmont fight, as a pilot on a boat in the Confederate ser vice. I had often had a curiosity to know how a green ha... ...hat they forgot to look after their horses, which were car ried away by his confederates while he was preaching. But the stealing of horses in one St... ...ssissippi Mark T wain 167 stated that he had more than a thousand sworn confederates , all ready at a moment’s notice to support any of the gang ... ...nd sometimes marched in procession around the stage?” “Do you mean the Roman army?—those six sandaled roustabouts in nightshirts, with tin shields and... ... T wain 285 place. This seemed odd to me, for when I retired from the rebel army in ’61 I retired upon Louisiana in good order; at least in good enou...
...d yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by the Emperor ... ... costs and all risks is, however, the very essence of a soldier’s life. An army could not exist with- out it, a ship could not sail without it, and mi... ...m it each man’s simple duty to face death unhesitatingly, so the ‘glorious army of martyrs’ had, for the most part, joined the Church with the expecta... ...Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. ... ...mpire was about to launch his countless host against the little cluster of states, the whole of which together would hardly equal one prov- ince of th... ...as held at the Isthmus of Corinth, and attended by depu- ties from all the states of Greece to consider of the best means of defense. The ships of the... ... to the valley called the Forum or Marketplace to give their votes for the officers of state who were elected ev- ery year; especially the two consuls... ...xes. They drew themselves up in the form of a wedge and ‘The gallant Swiss confederates then They prayed to God aloud, And He displayed His rainbow f... ...f Arnold von Winkelried, and the other dis- tinguished achievements of the confederates, and masses are sung for the souls of those who were slain. No...
... yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typical of the great statesman who made it, alike in its strong com- 4 The Writings of Abraham ... ...He says: “….the moral qualities that are required in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness ... ...re that of skil- ful compromise, and in the conditions of modern life, the statesman is likely to succeed best who possesses second- ary qualities to ... ...supplied with arms, if not emp- tied by treacherous practices; the regular army of insig- nificant strength, dispersed over an immense surface, and de... ...ength, dispersed over an immense surface, and deprived of some of its best officers by defection; the navy small and antiquated. But that was not all.... ...ed, the second at Bull Run. But when, after that battle, the Con- federate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and in- 43 The Writings of Abraham Li... ...ln: V ol One vaded Maryland, Lincoln vowed in his heart that, if the Union army were now blessed with success, the decree of freedom should surely be ... ...ell. Lincoln himself entered the city on foot, ac- companied only by a few officers and a squad of sailors who had rowed him ashore from the flotilla ... ...t he was shot.” He was shot heading a gallant charge of his regiment…. The Confederates replied to a request of his friends for his body that they had...