Historic Landmarks of America as Seen and Described by Famous WritersEsther Singleton Dodd, Mead, 1907 - 305 pagine |
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American arms army arrived artillery attack Augustine bank battle beautiful BENSON JOHN LOSSING Bermudas boats Boston Brandywine British Burgoyne called canoes Captain Chad's Ford Champlain Chicago chief coast Colonel colony command crossed despatched Detroit Photographic enemy English erected expedition fall Father Marquette feet fire flank force forest Fort Clinton Fort Niagara Fort Putnam fortress French garrison Gates Governor guns harbour height hills houses Hudson hundred Indians inhabitants Iroquois island Knyphausen Lake Champlain Lake George land leagues Lexington Little Round Top Lord marched ments miles military militia morning mountains natives Newport night officers party passed Pontiac prisoners Quebec retreat returned river road rock rocky sailed savages Savannah scene sent settlement ship shore side soon stream thousand Ticonderoga tion town trees tribes troops valley vessels village Virginia voyage walls West Point whole woods Yosemite Yosemite Valley
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Pagina 101 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Pagina 101 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Pagina 17 - Neversink, described by him as a "very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see.
Pagina 148 - A free passage to be granted to the army under Lieutenant-general Burgoyne to Great Britain, upon condition of not serving again in North America during the present contest...
Pagina 176 - April, one thousand six hundred and eighty-two, in virtue of the commission of his Majesty, which I hold in my hand, and which may be seen by all whom it may concern, have taken, and do now take, in the name of his Majesty and of his successors to the crown, possession of this...
Pagina 103 - ... hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the llth of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth....
Pagina 181 - Palms ; upon the assurance which we have received from all these nations, that we are the first Europeans who have descended or ascended the said River Colbert...
Pagina 181 - Majesty which I hold in my hand, and which may be seen by all whom it may concern, have taken, and do now take, in the name of his Majesty and of his successors to the crown, possession of this country of Louisiana, the seas, harbours, ports, bays, adjacent straits; and all the nations, people, provinces, cities, towns, villages, mines, minerals, fisheries, streams, and rivers, comprised in the extent of the said Louisiana, from the mouth of the great river St.
Pagina 199 - There's no need," he answered: "it's all over with me." A moment after, one of them cried out, " They run ; see how they run!" "Who run?" Wolfe demanded, like a man roused from sleep. "The enemy, sir. Egad, they give way everywhere!
Pagina 74 - They sell everything by number or measure; at least so far we have not observed them to sell anything by weight. There is a building in the great square that is used as an audience house, where ten or twelve persons, who are magistrates, sit and decide all controversies that arise in the market, and order delinquents to be punished.