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The American Civil War, Jefferson Davis Inaugural Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens:- CALLED to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the provisional government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the ...

Conspiracy Of Pontiac Author: Randall, E. O. Conspiracy Of Pontiac 1763With the fall of Quebec and De Vaudreuil's capitulation of Montreal, Canada passed from the dominion of France to Britain, and for a time came under military rule. In the West, around the shores of the Great Lakes and the country...

The American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Washington, D.C.March 4, 1861 This speech had its origins in the back room of a store in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln, who lived in Springfield for nearly 25 years, wrote the speech shortly before becom...

Recognition Of The Independence Of CubaAuthor: VariousDate: 1898 Recognition Of The Independence Of Cuba[The following resolution not only recognized the independence of Cuba,but authorized the levying of war upon Spain in order to force upon thatcountry a similar recognition. The resolution was pas...

Better Angels At his inauguration on a cloudy but mild March 4, Lincoln doffed his black silk hat prior to delivering his inaugural address and...hesitated. Where to put it? Two men reached for it. One was a young reporter named Henry Watterson, who in just a few weeks would be a Confederate soldier...

Kingdom Of Italy EstablishedAuthor: Garibaldi, Giuseppe;Probyn, John WebbBy Giuseppe Garibaldi1860After the suppression of the Italian Revolution, by Austria, in 1849, andthe restoration of Austrian power in Italy, Charles Albert, King of Sardinia,who had headed the movement for Italian independence...

Braxton Bragg b. March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.d. Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them.After graduating in 1837 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., B...

Great Puritan Exodus To New England, Founding Of BostonAuthor: Palfrey, John G.Great Puritan Exodus To New England, Founding Of Boston1630Whatever might have been the historic development of New England had itproceeded from the single plantation of Plymouth, it is certain that thegrowth and characte...

The American Civil War. Causes of the American Civil War. The Civil War in the United States of America The American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Charge of Bayonets Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Excerpts From Chamberlain's Writings The silence and the doubt of the momentary lull were...

THE GREAT HYMN TO SHAMASH Among the longest and most beautiful of the hymns that have come down to us in cuneiform, this ranks as one of the best products of Mesopotamian religious writing. 21. You climb to the mountains surveying the earth, 22. You suspend from the heavens the circle of the lands....

The Akkadians Portions of this work contributed by Robert A. Guisepi and F. Roy Williams, University of California The Advice of an Akkadian Father to His Son, c. 2200 BCE Do not set out to stand around in the assembly. Do not loiter where there is a dispute, for in the dispute they will have you a...

The Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway (June 3-6, 1942), was a World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots and ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in t...