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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 477 477 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 422 422 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 227 227 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 51 51 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 50 50 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 46 46 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 45 45 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 43 43 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 35 35 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
province, There are none of you but what are big with the privileges of Englishmen and Magna Charta. In the administration of the covetous and passionate 1692. Sept. Fletcher, a man of great mobility and feeble judgment, the people of New York were soon disciplined into more decided resistance. As to territory, the old hope ofe governor of New York. The legislature resisted, and referred the question to the people, who resolved on a petition to the king, by the hands of Fitz John 1693 Sept. Winthrop. To give the command of the militia, it was said, to the governor of another colony, is, in effect, to put our persons, interests, and liberties entirelyconfusion, Cotton Mather got up a case Chap XIX.} of witchcraft in his own parish. Miracles, he avers, were wrought in Boston. Believe his statements, and 1693 Sept. you must believe that his prayers healed diseases. But he was not bloodthirsty; he wished his vanity protected, not his parishioners hanged; and his bewitched neo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
r the shore of Lake Iroquois, which is but a bay of Lake Huron, they raised the first hum- 1634 Sept. ble house of the Society of Jesus among the Hurons— the cradle, it was said, of his church who dmony all the confederate nations were invited; and, as they approach the shore, on a deep 1641. Sept. bay in Lake Iroquois, their canoes advance in regular array, and the representatives of nations Allouez embarked on a 1665 Aug. 8. mission, by way of the Ottawa, to the far west. Early in September, he reached the rapids, through which the waters of the upper lakes rush to the Huron, and admir young men, conducted the party, by way of Chicago, to Lake Michigan; and, before the end of September, all were safe in Green Bay. Joliet returned to Quebec to announce the discovery, of which deserted. Besides, the enemies of La Salle had instigated the Iroquois to hostility, and, in September, a large party of them, descending the river, threatened ruin to his enterprise. After a parl
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
Penobscot and St. John Indians, so that the settlements east of Falmouth were deserted. In September, commissioners from New England held a conference with the Mohawks at Albany, soliciting an al government and the moneyed interest. The peace of Ryswick was itself a victory of the 1697. Sept. spirit of reform; for Louis XIV., with James II. at his court, recognized the revolutionary sovvolved in the direct evils of war. South Carolina began colonial hostilities. Its gov- 1702 Sept. ernor, James Moore, by the desire of the commons, placed himself at the head of an expedition fosels, joined by thirty of New England, and four New England regiments, sailed in Sept. 18-29. September from Boston. In six days, the fleet anchored before the fortress of Port Royal. The garrisonnts Aug. 25. at Matanes had descried ninety or ninety-six vessels with the English flag. Yet September came, and still from the heights of Cape Diamond no eye caught one sail of the expected enemy.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
es, accompanied by Lawson, the surveyor-general for the northern province, in September of 1711, ascended the Neuse River in a 1711. Sept. boat, to discover how farSept. boat, to discover how far it was navigable, and through what kind of country it flowed. Seized by a party of sixty well-armed Indians, both were compelled to travel all night long, till thement; in autumn, the yellow fever raged under its most malignant form; and the Sept. country south of Pamlico Sound seemed destined to become once more a wilderness the irrevocable answer, Too-eu-hah,—it is a most certain truth; and the 1730. Sept. delivery of eagles' feathers confirmed his words. The covenant promised that l of Utrecht, expressly asserted in the royal grant of the commerce of the 1712 Sept. province. Weary of fruitless efforts, Louis XIV. had assigned the exclusive tr turn, to conquer the French posts on Dauphine Island and on the Mobile. In September, the French recovered Pensacola, which, by the treaty of 1721, reverted to Sp
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
and disciplined a regiment; and, after an absence of more than a year and a half, he returned to Frederica. There, 1738 Sept. by the industry of his soldiers, the walls of the fortress were completed. Their ivy-mantled ruins are still Chap. XXI Chap. XXIV.} quest of Florida. Having, in September, 1739, received instructions from England of the approaching 1739 Sept. war with Spain, Oglethorpe hastened, before the close of the year, to extend the boundaries of Georgia once more to the Sledged his word of honor to restore Madras to the English, in the very hour of victory, when he proudly planted the 1746 Sept. flag of France on its fortress, and made himself master of the city which, next to Goa and Batavia, was the most opulent va Scotia. The summer of the next year passed in that 1747. inactivity which attends the expectation of peace; and in September, the provincial army, by direction of the duke of Newcastle, was disbanded. Men believed that England, from motives of