... had their 'Sons of Liberty,' Lower
Canada had its 'Fils de la Liberté' an association formed in Montreal in the autumn of 1837. And the Lower
Canada Patriotes outstripped the ... asserts
that the said constitution has conferred on the two Canadas the institutions of Great Britain.' With an
extraordinary lack of tact they assured the king...
... tempting was the foreign war trade, that a fleet of them was sent across the Atlantic
until the American Government barred them from the war zone as too easy a prey for
submarine attack. They therefore ... shipmasters
who had the gift of writing.
Captain Amasa Delano, "Narrative of Voyages and Travels" (1817). Another of the
rare human documents of blu...
... available the wonderful riches of the inland
country, across the Appalachian barrier and around the Great Lakes, into which American pioneers had
already made their way.
Those immemorial pathways, ... looking at the nearest parallel in the facts of history, each of us may make his own
guess. The airship appears now to be much farther advanced than the steamboat was for m...
... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the
farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other.
As in the parallel case of ... by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice
in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at the end of t...
... because 'It will please your whole army, as it shows them the way to gain by
their gallantry the hearts and affections of the Ladys.' And even a city of the 'Great Awakening,' ... hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a
great deal of goodwill, in spite of the fact that his 'Admiral's eighth...
... had
penetrated along the easy pathway of the plains.
South of the great granaries of North America and Eurasia the plains are broken, but
occur again in the Orinoco region of South America ... hollow and the ridges of Africa and Australia on either hand. The last of the four
sides contains the Atlantic Ocean and is bounded by Africa and Europe on one hand
an...
... the
Governor-General of Acadia or Nova Scotia as lieutenant of the region east of the St. Croix, and another,
Charles de Menou, Sieur d'Aulnay-Charnisé, as lieutenant of the region between the St. Croix and ... large part to the mother country.
She established councils and committees of trade and plantations, and, by the seizure of New Netherland in
1664 and th...
... miles east and west. This is the Great Slave Lake; Hearne
speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake. The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska
of Canadian maps) the word ... beyond the basin of the Saskatchewan and the Columbia emptied towards the north. Hearne had revealed
the existence of the Great Slave Lake, and the advance of daring f...
... Marshall was thrown into occasional
contact, and that was his father's patron and patron saint, Washington. The appeal
made to the lad's imagination by the great Virginian, was deep and ...
Senate. A week later the Senate ratified the nomination, and on the 4th of February
Marshall accepted the appointment. The task despaired of by Jay and abandoned by
Ell...
... Maclay as a lawyer's wrangle. The bill was put into shape by the Senate,
and reached the House toward the close of the session when the struggle over the site
of the national capital was ... protect the ports, and to increase the naval armament; and Adams was placed in a
much better position to maintain neutrality than Washington had been. Fear of another...