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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 15 11 Browse Search
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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 II. 13 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource] 11 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 10 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 10 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. 9 1 Browse Search
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a master-stroke of policy to detach the Athenian from the Grecian alliance. To accomplish this object, he sent to them Alexander, the son of Amyntas, King of Macedon, and ancestor of Alexander the Great, with proposals both from himself and from thAlexander the Great, with proposals both from himself and from the "Great King," as the Persian monarch was styled. Alexander had joined the Persians upon compulsion, and was, at the bottom, a true friend to Greece in general, and to Athens in particular. He really believed that they would not be able to withstAlexander had joined the Persians upon compulsion, and was, at the bottom, a true friend to Greece in general, and to Athens in particular. He really believed that they would not be able to withstand the power of Xerxes, and spoke from his heart when he advised them to yield while it was yet time, and avoid the terrible consequences of conquest after a protracted resistance. He delivered the message of Mardonins, which was in these words (wt is in your power to be reconciled honorably, since the King is so disposed." Such was the message of Mardonins, which Alexander enforced with all the eloquence in his power, "foreseeing," as he said, that they would not always be able to carry on