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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 185 3 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 14 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 8 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 6 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 4 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 4 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
al affairs and moral improvement he has ever since taken the liveliest interest. His talk was of past times. He remembered the course of our Revolution in America with great distinctness, and told me that he personally knew it to be a fact, that Burr made offers to the French government to divide the United States, and bring the Valley of the Mississippi under French control. Talleyrand told me, in 1818, that the offer was made to himself; and Laharpe was in Paris, and used to see Burr occasiBurr occasionally at the time he was there, but says he was never looked upon with favor or respect. He told me, too, that, being at the headquarters of the allies as they were advancing upon Paris, in 1814, Lord Castlereagh, after hearing of the occupation of Eastport and the lower part of Maine, said, one day, rubbing his hands with some satisfaction, We shall take two or three of the United States now, and I think we shall be able to keep them, too. When, however, peace was made, in 1815, and he co
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
terests of General Washington's administration, and against what Pichon considered the interests of the United States. Of Burr, he said that he was the most unprincipled man he had almost ever known, and that he hardly knew how he could have become so, to such a degree, in the United States. He said that between 1801 and 1805, while Burr was Vice-President of the United States, he made suggestions and proposals to Pichon, for throwing the United States into confusion, and separating the States under the influence and with the aid of France; and that when Burr was in France afterwards, he renewed the same offers and suggestions, both to Talleyrand and to Bonaparte. Of Hamilton he spoke with great praise and admiration; but said he must qunst the United States, and used his influence recently against granting our claims for the famous twenty-five millions. Burr once said to Pichon, The rule of my life is, to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. December 14.—. . .
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
charge of his papers, 10 note. Bugeaud, General, II. 133, 134. Buller, Mrs., I. 411. Bulow, Baron Edouard von, I. 462, 474, 475, 479, 483, 489. Bulwer, Sir Henry (Lord Dalling), II. 263, 269. Bunbury, Edward, II. 360. Bunsen, Carl Josias, I. 177, 178, II. 58, 59, 62, 66, 67, 70, 76, 79, 84, 86, 287, 312, 315, 828. Bunsen, Mrs., II. 58, 62, 329. Bunsen, Rev. E. II. 169. Buonarotti, II. 56. Burgess, Sir, James Bland, I. 60, 62. Burlington, Earl of, II. 363. Burr, Aaron, I. 261, II. 35, 113, 114. Bussierre, Baron de, I. 464, 470. Buttini, Dr., I. 154. Byron, Lady, I. 60, 63, 66, 67, 68, 410 and note, 448. Byron, Lord, I. 64, 68, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 110, 114, 165, 166, 411, 446. C Caballero, Fernan, pseud., I. 286 note. Cabot, George, I. 12, 13, 14, 396. Cadaval, Duchess de, I. 249. Cadiz, I. 193; visits, 236. Caernarvon, Earl of, II. 364, 371. Calasanzios Convent, I. 195. Calderon de la Barca, Don A., II. 248, 263.