Library of World History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art, Volum 10Western Press Assoc., 1914 |
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Pàgina 4442
... of horses , cattle , swine and sheep . Their sparse population and their exten- sive country often made a Boer's nearest neighbor ten miles distant from his home . They were very proud of their 4442 BRITISH AND DUTCH IN SOUTH AFRICA .
... of horses , cattle , swine and sheep . Their sparse population and their exten- sive country often made a Boer's nearest neighbor ten miles distant from his home . They were very proud of their 4442 BRITISH AND DUTCH IN SOUTH AFRICA .
Pàgina 4456
... miles on each side of the city extend the headgears and smokestacks of mines - over one hundred of them - which have made the city and state what it is and enabled President Krüger to sell a farm for eighty thousand pounds the day I was ...
... miles on each side of the city extend the headgears and smokestacks of mines - over one hundred of them - which have made the city and state what it is and enabled President Krüger to sell a farm for eighty thousand pounds the day I was ...
Pàgina 4474
... miles from Ladysmith , on October 18th . In the west the Boers of the two Republics under General Cronje in- Invasion vaded the northern part of Cape Colony and destroyed the railway at Colony . different points , thus severing ...
... miles from Ladysmith , on October 18th . In the west the Boers of the two Republics under General Cronje in- Invasion vaded the northern part of Cape Colony and destroyed the railway at Colony . different points , thus severing ...
Pàgina 4476
... miles from Ladysmith . General White defeated the Boers at Reitfontein , thus preventing them from attacking General Yule's column . He then concentrated the British forces at Ladysmith , where , with about nine thousand men , he was ...
... miles from Ladysmith . General White defeated the Boers at Reitfontein , thus preventing them from attacking General Yule's column . He then concentrated the British forces at Ladysmith , where , with about nine thousand men , he was ...
Pàgina 4477
... miles , but failed to reach the laagers . After several hours ' fighting , the main body of the British detachment returned to their cantonments unmolested . But on the night of the 29th General White sent out Colonel Carlton , with a ...
... miles , but failed to reach the laagers . After several hours ' fighting , the main body of the British detachment returned to their cantonments unmolested . But on the night of the 29th General White sent out Colonel Carlton , with a ...
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66 Battle allies American ammunition April artillery attacked August Bloemfontein Boer force bombarded Botha Britain British British loss Buller cannon Cape Colony captured Charles China Chinese civil Colonel command conquest Death December declared defeated Dutch elected Emperor Empire England English evacuated February fighting fleet foreign France French garrison German Henry horses House hundred Boers infantry Ireland island January Japan Japanese John July June killed and wounded Kimberley King kingdom Korea laager Ladysmith land Lord Kitchener Lord Methuen Lord Roberts Louis Louis Botha Mafeking Majesty Manchuria March ment miles military Minister Natal November occupied October officers Orange Free Orange River Colony Parliament peace Pekin person Port Arthur President Krüger Pretoria Prince prisoners Queen railway Republic repulsed retreat Roman Russian Scotland September siege South Africa Spain surrender thousand Tien-tsin tion torpedo-boats town Transvaal Transvaal Republic treaty Uitlanders Union United vaal victory wagons William
Passatges populars
Pàgina 4799 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Pàgina 4784 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Pàgina 4804 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the UNION by which the}' were procured ? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens ? To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.
Pàgina 4791 - Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-Président; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-Président of the United States.
Pàgina 4795 - States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Pàgina 4805 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution, in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.
Pàgina 4767 - An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown.
Pàgina 4799 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Pàgina 4800 - The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially...
Pàgina 4765 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalised orinade a denizen, except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament...