Decisive Battles of AmericaRipley Hitchcock Harper & Brothers, 1909 - Počet stran: 396 |
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A. P. Hill advance American Anderson April army arrived artillery attack batteries battle Boston Breed's Hill brigade British Bunker Hill Burgoyne camp Captain capture cavalry Charleston Churubusco Colonel colonies colonists command Commodore Confederate Congress Connecticut corps Cuba defeat defence enemy England English expedition Federal fell fight fire flag fleet force Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter French garrison Governor guns Hudson hundred Indians infantry Iroquois Island killed Lake Lake Champlain land Lieutenant Longstreet March Massachusetts McClernand Meade ment Merrimac Mexican Mexico miles military militia Mississippi morning Moultrie Narragansets naval navy night North Northern officers ordered Pequots Perry Plymouth President Quebec redoubt regiment reinforcements retreat river road Santa Anna Santiago Schley Scott sent Serial ships shot side Skenesborough soldiers South Spain Spanish squadron Sullivan's Island Sumter surrender territory thousand tion troops Union United vessels Vicksburg victory Virginia volunteers Wampanoags Washington West wounded York
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Strana 265 - ... he will not use his guns against us unless ours should be employed against Fort Sumter, you are authorized thus to avoid the effusion of blood. If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be most practicable.
Strana 308 - If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?
Strana 247 - ... of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into either of them which you may deem most proper to increase its power of resistance.
Strana 271 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Strana 271 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Strana 272 - You and I both anticipated that the cause of the country would be advanced by making the attempt to provision Fort Sumter, even if it should fail ; and it is no small consolation now to feel that our anticipation is justified by the result.
Strana 236 - From a knowledge of our Southern population it is my solemn conviction that there is some danger of an early act of rashness preliminary to secession, viz., the seizure of some or all of the following posts : Forts Jackson and St. Philip, in the Mississippi, below New Orleans, both without garrisons; Fort Morgan, below Mobile, without a garrison; Forts Pickens and...
Strana 308 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Strana 25 - Senecas — afterwards joined by the Tuscaroras — held the key to the continent. Occupying the greater part of what is now the State of New York, they virtually ruled the country from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and from the Great Lakes to the Savannah River. They were from the first treated with great consideration by the Dutch, and they remained, with brief intervals of war, their firm friends. One war, indeed, there was under the injudicious management of Governor Kieft, lasting from 1640...
Strana 327 - Our army held the war in the hollow of their hand, and they would not close it.' Again he said: 'We had gone all through the labor of tilling and planting an enormous crop, and when it was ripe we did not harvest it!' Still, he added, 'I am very, very grateful to Meade for the great service he did at Gettysburg.