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The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 pot

The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 pot

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... seaward, Porter decided to seize the emergency andtake the long chance of running out to windward of the Phoebe and the Cherub. He therefore cut the othercable, and the Essex plunged into the ... finish.For a few minutes the two ships plunged ahead so near each other that the rammers of the American sailorsstruck the side of the Frolic as they drove the shot down the throats of their guns. It ... recommendation to the mercy of the President. The verdict was approved by Madison, but he remitted the execution of the sentence because of the CHAPTER I 8 CHAPTER VIII THE LAST CRUISE OF THE ESSEX The last...
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Tài liệu The Agrarian Crusade, A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics doc

Tài liệu The Agrarian Crusade, A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics doc

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... deterrent to the growth of the order in the East was the organization of two Grangesamong the commission men and the grain dealers of Boston and New York, under the aegis of that clause of the constitution ... most of the other States of the Union and even for the national regulation of railroadsthrough the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Supreme Court of the United States was the theater for the ... the incident. The year 1873 is important in the annals of the Grange because it marks the retirement of the "founders" frompower. In January of that year, at the sixth session of the...
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Unfolding the Future of the Long War - Motivations, Prospects, and Implications for the U.S. Army docx

Unfolding the Future of the Long War - Motivations, Prospects, and Implications for the U.S. Army docx

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... during the Cold War. e authors note further that the long war, like the Cold War, “takes time,” and whether looking back on the 40 years of the Cold War, or further back to World War I (thus ... example of the kinds of parallels that may be drawn between the Cold War and the long war. In this book, the authors draw broad lessons for the current conflict from the Cold War, despite the differences ... Unified Quest), on the topic of the long war, all of which have high-lighted the difficulty of producing a single term capable of describing the complex nature of the situation facing the United States....
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The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths doc

The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths doc

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... brought with them the books and the habits of the reader and scholar of theirday. They were superior to those of the second and third generation in the breadth of their ideas and in the vigor and ... their children; they disapproved of the lax Dutch observance of Sunday and saw in the temptations of the place a menace to the habits and morals of the younger members of the flock, and, in the ... derelictions of duty to the iniquity of the times ratherthan to any evil intention of the heart. Then declaring that the chief aim of the charter was liberty of conscience, the King struck at the very...
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Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War pptx

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War pptx

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... styles of [women's] dress necessitated by the exigencies of war gave the crowd a very striking appearance. In singlesuits I saw sleeves of one color, the waist of another, the skirt of another; ... whilemingled with the gurgle of the water round the raft beneath was the boom of cannon in the air, solemnlybreaking the silence of night. It drizzled now and then, and the mosquitos swarmed over ... up to the bank out of the way of passing gunboats, but they took no notice of us. When we got thirsty,it was found that Max had set the jug of water in the shade of a tree and left it there....
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Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas doc

Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas doc

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... with one another the weapons of their common stock. The advance was made in the middle of the night, but at this season of the year the whole {60} scene was brilliant with the light of the midnight ... land offered nothing to their search, the air was moderate and the weather singularly mild. The broad sheet of open water, of the very colour of the ocean itself, buoyed up their hopes of the ... opportunity of alleviating the extremehunger that I suffered with the refuse of the table of one of my acquaintances.At the end of the month (December 1770), they reached the woods, a thick growth of...
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JOHN MARSHALL AND THE CONSTITUTION, A CHRONICLE OF THE SUPREME COURT doc

JOHN MARSHALL AND THE CONSTITUTION, A CHRONICLE OF THE SUPREME COURT doc

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... importance" of the implications of this case for the future of the Republic, contrasted the frivolity of the charges brought against Chase with the magnitude of the crimes of which Warren Hastings ... of their posts; and it is "armed with the tremendous weapons" which slay legislation. And if the voice of the Church was the voice of God, so the voice of the Court is the voice of ... from the doctrine of the separation of powers—that, while the function of making new law belongs to the legislative branch of the Government, that of expounding the standing law, of which the...
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WASHINGTON AND HIS COLLEAGUES A CHRONICLE OF THE RISE AND FALL OF FEDERALISM pptx

WASHINGTON AND HIS COLLEAGUES A CHRONICLE OF THE RISE AND FALL OF FEDERALISM pptx

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... perusal of the record is the inability of members to appreciate the importance of the issues. Much of the tedious and pointless character of their speeches may be ascribed to the lack of the personal ... disposition of two state governments, and the efficacy of the provisions of their respective laws. And security of other States and the money of all are at the discretion of one. These things ... picked off the gunners until the artillery was silenced; then the Indians rushed in and seized the guns. In the combat there were both conspicuous exploits of valor and disgraceful scenes of cowardice....
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The Cleveland Eraby A Chronicle Of The New Order In Politics (dodo Press) By Henry Jones Ford pdf

The Cleveland Eraby A Chronicle Of The New Order In Politics (dodo Press) By Henry Jones Ford pdf

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... duties of office. The Constitution provides that “in case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, ... from the effects of the wound on the 19th of September. Meanwhile, the contest in the New York Legislature continued until the 22d of July when the deadlock was broken by the election of Warner ... message opened with the statement that “ever since the beginning of the present session of the Senate, the different heads of the departments attached to the executive branch of the government have...
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The ''''Patriotes'''' of ''''37 A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion doc

The ''''Patriotes'''' of ''''37 A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion doc

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... to blame for their behaviour during the day. The sons of liberty broke the windows of prominent loyalists; and the members of the Doric Club completelywrecked {72} the office of the Vindicator ... Some of the Royals then got into the presbytery and set fire to it. Under cover of the smoke the rest of the regiment thendoubled up the street to the church door. Gaining access through the ... factors the undisciplinedstate of the loyalists, the darkness of the night, the vicinity of woods, and the proximity of the boundary-line,{92} beyond which he did not allow the pursuit to go. The...
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The Eve of the Revolution, A Chronicle of the Breach with England doc

The Eve of the Revolution, A Chronicle of the Breach with England doc

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... period in the garret of TomDawes's house. "There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. Therethey drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose ... toestimate the value of colonies in terms of what they could buy, and not merely, as of old, in terms of whatthey could sell. From this point of view, the superiority of the continental over the insular ... till midnight of the last day of the month of any suchannouncement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month....
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The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado pptx

The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado pptx

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... every boy in the town which means every male of any age. The roar of the flames, the hissing of the steam, the crash of the timber, the shrieks of the foremen, the yells of applause or of sarcastic ... shore up the tottering commercial structure. With the miners out of the diggings, matters changed. The red-shirted digger of gold had little idea of the value of money. Many of them knew only the ... fascinating one. The whole battery of technical delays was at the command of the defendant. If a man had neither the time nor the energy for the finesse that made the interest of the game, he could...
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The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending pptx

The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending pptx

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... with the war in Afghanistan, with most of the later increase attributable to the war in Iraq and the continuing cost of the occupation in Afghanistan. Appendix Table 1 compares projected the ... structure of the Global Insights model, it likely understates the negative impact of military spending relative to other models. The next section of this paper describes the key projections of the ... www.cepr.net The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending  8 By the twentieth year, the number of jobs projected for the high military spending scenario is 673,400 less than in the...
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