... War of 1812 as the most important ofthe many that were waged. These three were, first, the battle of Tippecanoe, regarded as the opening scene ofthe bloody drama; second, thebattleofthe ... not reprehensible. The cause of the retreat the Court attributes to the shameful flight ofthe command of Major Arnaud, sent to oppose the landing of the enemy. The retreat ofthe Kentucky militia, ... no other party, the incident ofthebattle and defeatwould have been mentioned and passed without comment. THE COVERT RETREAT OFTHE BRITISH. The battles ofthe eighth were decisive ofthe campaign,...
... seen the work of their guns upon the same occasion, Iwas gratified to see these things. Along the slope of Culp's Hill, in front ofthe position ofthe 12th, and the 1stDivision ofthe ... front ofthe left ofthe Second Corps, away down to the front of Round Top,and the fight rages with the greatest fury. The fire of artillery and infantry and the yells ofthe Rebels fill the air ... some other brigades from the sameCorps and some of them were moving at the double quick. They formed lines ofbattle at the foot of the Taneytown road, and when the broken fragments ofthe Third...
... as the command abandoned the camp, the Indians reoccupied it, and under the fire of the sharpshooters, hauled down several of their teepees, hastily bundled together the greater portion of theirplunder, ... Thirteen of his seventeen officers were veterans ofthe war of the Rebellion, as were nearly all the citizen volunteers. The other four officers, and nearly all the enlistedmen had seen years of hard ... good prices as relics ofthe battle. Several of them werebadly stained with blood, but this, of course, enhanced, rather than lessened, their value in the eyes ofthe class of buyers he sought.Captain...
... upon the mother-land, upon the avarice ofthe throne, the cupidity of Englishmerchants and the power of English guns and cannon.By the year 1790, therefore, slavery in the North had either ... the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the kidnapping of African slaves, and the sale of these men to the sugar and cotton planters ofthe West Indies and of America. Even the stories of ... been offered providing for the reception ofthe State of Orleans into the Union. The people of New Orleans spoke the French language,lived under the code of Napoleon, were monarchial in their...
... left the rumble ofthe wheels while the artillery and the wagons were pulling out, and much ofthe time could beheard the dull tread of many feet and the clicking of accoutrements that told ofthe ... captain ofthe regiment, he relates how the officers ofthe regiment triedto stop the flying troops, and taunted their officers with the bad example they were setting their men; how the regiment ... The 97th Ohio, of Lane's brigade, was to the left ofthe battery, in front of SpringHill, with the left ofthe 97th extending towards Mount Carmel road. The 100th Illinois was on the other...
... in the region of Vega. The rest wasstandard procedure.A flip ofthe coin had decided it. Everset went down in the scouter,maintaining radio contact with Jones, in the ship. The recording of ... can do. If they won't talk, we'll blast'em out of space.""Look!"Out ofthe port they could see the red flare of a reaction engine; the next ship in their sector, ... AgainRobert SheckleyWarrior RaceDestroying the spirit ofthe enemy is the goal of war and the alienshad the best way!Robert SheckleyBad MedicineRobert Sheckley The Status Civilization10About Sheckley:Robert...
... related the terms of comparison: in the male the filaments ofthe stamens are the vasdeferens, the anthers are the testes and the pollen that falls from them is the seminal fluid; in the female the ... stigma is the vulva, the style becomes the vagina, the tube running the length ofthe pistilis the fallopian tube, the pericarp is the impregnated ovary and the seeds are the eggs. The French ... Sinervo ofthe University of California, Santa Cruz and Kelly Zamudio ofthe University of California, Berkeley report in the December 5, 2000 issue ofthe Proceedings ofthe National Academy of...