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Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Anti-Expansionists,
An old phrase in American political history which was resurrected during the Presidential campaign of 1900, and applied to those who were opposed to the extension of American territory which had been brought about during the first administration of President McKinley, principally as a result of the war with Spain in 1898.
The administration was charged not only by its Democratic opponents, but by many able men in the Republican party, with expansionist or imperialist tendencies considered foreign to the national policy of the country.
While those who opposed the territorial expansion which had been accomplished, anti also was pending, in the matter of the future of the Philippine Islands, were not sufficiently strong to organize an independent political party, the large number of them within and without the Republican party created a sharp complication in the Presidential campaign.
The position of the two great parties on this issue is shown in the followin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Appropriations by Congress. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, international Court of, (search)
Army War College.
A department of the United States military educational establishment, authorized by Congress in 1900, Brig.-Gen. William Ludlow being the chief of the board that drafted the regulations.
The object is to unify the systems of instruction at the four existing service institutions; to develop these systems; and to give opportunity for the most advancedd professional study of military problems.
The officers of the college exercise supervision over the course of study in each of the service schools, and over all civil institutions to which the government details an officer for military instruction.
The faculty of the college study the military organizations of the United States, with regard to a complete understanding of its efficiency, and constitute an advisory board to which the Secretary of War can turn at any time for details and recommendations as to any point in the mechanism of the whole military service.
Plans of campaigns are studied, and military inform
Assiniboine Indians,
A branch of the Dakota family, inhabiting each side of the boundary-line between the United States and British America in Montana and Manitoba.
They were originally a part of the Yankton Sioux, but, after a bitter quarrel.
they separated from the main body at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and the two bands have ever remained hostile.
The French discovered them as early as 1640.
In 1871 the number of Assiniboines in the United States was estimated at 4.850, and in 1900 there were 1.316, nearly equally divided at the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap agencies in Montana.
Astoria,
A city in Oregon.
at the mouth of the Columbia River, founded in 1810 by John Jacob Astor (q. v.) as a station for his fur-trade.
It is the subject of a picturesque descriptive work entitled Astoria, by Washington Irving (1836). lrving never visited the station, but wrote from documents furnished by Astor.
and from recollections of another Northwestern fur-trading post.
In 1900 the population was 8,381.
See Oregon.