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  vermont
At the outbreak of the French and Indian War he had chartered fifteen additional towns, and in 1759, after the French were driven from the Champlain valley, he resumed issuing New Hampshire patents until by 1763 they totaled 138.
Almost 35,000, one of four adult males, served in the army during the Civil War, and casualty rates were among the highest of any state.
The latter, labeled the Civil Union Act (2000), was the first of its kind in the nation, and observers attributed its passage to the state's evolving demography and economy.
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  KING OF THE BRITONS FACTS AND INFORMATION
The king was probably of the same family of Cornwall that descended from Dunvallo nearly 750 years earlier, but when the royal family ceased ruling with Lucius, this branch of the house of Brutus became a likely heir.
Cadwallader, an example of the decline of the Britons, was the son of a Saxon queen and grandson of a Gewissei king.
Owen_Tudor, the ancestor of Henry_VII_of_England, was a maternal descendant of the kings of Gwynedd and his marriage with Elizabeth_of_York signified the merging of the two royal houses (as well as the feuding houses of York and Lancaster).
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 Howard's Potted History of the English Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The English Civil War is in fact a rather misleading term, as fighting also took place in Scotland and Ireland - the military situation in the latter being a contributory cause of the war in the first place.
The causes of the first war were complex but at their simplest level reflected a power struggle between the forces of conservatism, represented by the King, and those seeking a more modern constitution, headed by members of Parliament.
King Charles I believed in "the divine right of kings" - autocratic rule for the good of the country, if necessary without reference to his subjects' views, whilst on the whole Parliament wished for a measure of accountability from the King with (by 21st century standards) limited democracy.
www.fairfax.org.uk /main/thewar/warhistory.htm   (3250 words)

  
 Hampton's Part In The Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1705 during the period of Queen Ann's War, the coast being infested by French privateers, and nightly patrol was established along the sea shore.
The second war with Great Britain was declared on the 18th of June 1812 and this section of the country remained lukewarm, in fact no Hampton men served during the first two years.
During the Civil War, eighteen regiments were created in New Hampshire, and in fifteen of these, in nineteen from other states and in the navy, Hampton men found service.
www.hampton.lib.nh.us /HAMPTON/history/1938/partwars.htm   (1481 words)

  
 Civil War Prisons
Though the United States government is a party to the case, the accomplished editors of the War Department have printed the letters and documents acquired largely through their industrious research, wholly with the view to ascertain the truth no matter which side it should favour.
In no part of the history of the Civil War is a wholesome skepticism more desirable and nowhere is more applicable a fundamental tenet of historical criticism that all the right is never on one side and all the wrong on the other.
With all the records at their command and with all facilities for eliciting testimony from living witnesses they failed to bring to light any evidence on which he might be tried by a military commission or any acts or words which in the freer judgment of history might leave a stain on his character.
tigger.uic.edu /~rjensen/prisons.htm   (8667 words)

  
 Causes of the Civil War
Before the Civil War, anyone refering to the country said "The United States ARE a collection of states that make up a government." Now, the correct statement would be "The United States IS a collection..." We are solidly defined, we are one unit with a strong central government.
Northerners were basically against fighting the War for the cause of slavery expansion (simply because it was not a cause that directly involved them), and thus they were against any results of the War that would indicate such a cause.
At the conclusion of the Mexican War, President James Knox Polk requested from Congress the sum of $2 million in order to indemnify the Mexican government for territory annexed by the U.S. The Wilmot Proviso moved to exclude slavery from the acquired territory and was approved by the House on Aug. 8, 1846.
www.civilwarhistory.com /slavetrade/causes.htm   (15367 words)

  
 CIVIL WAR ABC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Civil War, was the name of the war fought between the north and the south from 1861 at Fort Sumter to 1865 at the surrender of Appomattox Court House.
Winfield Scott, who was the war hero General who was so feeble at seventy-five that he had to be boosted onto his horse.
Ex-Slaves, which was the result of the war, as all of the slaves were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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 War Watch - October 26, 2003 - Fanatic Terrorism from the Past - The Ornery American
Our current war against terrorism is not the first time that western civilization has faced a widespread terrorist threat.
At the same time, civil libertarians and the supporters of nonviolent (or less violent) labor movements were horrified at the actions governments took to fight Anarchism.
The terrorists want a world war between all of Islam and everybody else, because they believe that in such a war Allah will give them the victory and the entire world will become Muslim (or at least be ruled by Muslims).
www.ornery.org /essays/warwatch/2003-10-26-1.html   (1769 words)

  
 Both Sides of the Civil War
The Civil War tore families and friends apart, forcing them to take sides and for some, once they returned home to reconstruct their lives, they would never forget the horrors of what they had seen, heard and done.
War Department records indicate that T.F. Roberts, private of Company B, 19th Regt., Tennessee Inf., CS (Confederate) Volunteers was enrolled 6 March 1863 at Knoxville by Maj. Peck for the War.
King Goodwin was the pilot the night I was arrested though he did not want them to arrest me. Bill Barry was along the night I was arrest...
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 feeble - OneLook Dictionary Search
Feeble : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
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 War Now!
This is in stark contrast to World War Two, in which a visceral hatred of the enemy, especially in the case of the Japanese, when it also used racial vilification ("When those little yellow bellies meet the Cohens and the Kellys"), was commonplace and even encouraged by official government propaganda.
Since the horrific bloodletting of both World Wars in which millions of conscripts were killed in infantry battles, military leaders have become fixated on preserving the lives of their own men by using technology to call down greater and greater firepower with more precision on the enemy at longer and longer ranges.
The war is clearly not useless, as was World War I, since it is being fought for two reasons: to protect the West from future acts of terrorism and to avenge the September 11 attacks.
warnow.blogspot.com /2002_06_09_warnow_archive.html   (14674 words)

  
 Benjamin Lundy on The War in Texas
The war now raging in Texas is a Mexican civil war, and a war for the re-establishment of slavery where it was abolished.
It is not a servile war, but a war between slavery and emancipation, and every possible effort has been made to drive us into the war, on the side of slavery.
But Spain is again convulsed with civil war for the succession to her crown; she has irretrievably lost all her colonies on both continents of America.
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/lundy.htm   (4453 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
KING SOLOMON'S MINES CHAPTER I I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS It is a curious thing that at my age--fifty-five last birthday--I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history.
I was one of Lord Chelmsford's guides in that unlucky Zulu War, and had the good fortune to leave the camp in charge of some wagons on the day before the battle.
While I was waiting for the cattle to be inspanned I fell into conversation with this man, who held some small command among the native auxiliaries, and he had expressed to me his doubts as to the safety of the camp.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext00/8kslm10.txt   (22517 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky: 1921-1923 - How The Revolution Armed/Volume V (Military Doctrine or Pseudo-Military Doctrinairism)
Precisely because war is a continuation of politics, rifle in hand, there never was and never could be, in our Party, any dispute in principle about the place which revolutionary wars can and should occupy in the development of the world revolution of the working class.
Since men do not wage war all the time, but with long intervals between the wars, it is common for the methods and procedures of the previous war to dominate the thinking of military men during a period of peace.
The operations of civil war are, unquestionably, distinguished by an exceptional element of manoeuvring.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/1922/military/ch37.htm   (12964 words)

  
 Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Ser. I, Vol. 1, Ch. I–Reports.
I protest (the disclaimer notwithstanding) that this post is to all intents and purposes in the possession of the South Carolina troops, and also against the indignity offered me as an officer of the United States Army, to say nothing of the annoyance the entire command is subjected to by this measure.
I shall, therefore, unless otherwise instructed from the War Department, make a formal protest against the posting of sentinels around this arsenal, and request that they be removed, which, if denied, I shall consider an occupancy of it by the State, and shall haul down my flag and surrender.
King, with his company, the Marion Artillery, commanded the mortar battery in rear of the Cummings Point batteries, and the accuracy of his shell practice was the theme of general admiration.
www.simmonsgames.com /research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S1-V01-C001R.html   (16091 words)

  
 William Shakespeare: King Henry V
King Henry V. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text is a copy of the University of Adelaide mirror of the ERIS Project plain text edition.
Besides, their writers say, King Pepin, which deposed Childeric, Did, as heir general, being descended Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair, Make claim and title to the crown of France.
But this is not so: the King is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of his servant; for they purpose not their death when they purpose their services.
www.uoregon.edu /~rbear/shake/hv.html   (16024 words)

  
 War Now!
A resolution was passed condemning the unwarranted genocide perpetrated by the Ents at Isengard and demanding that Treebeard be forthwith handed over to Mordor as a war criminal for a fair and free trial and subsequent execution.
Murray, over at War Now is throwing a bit of a tantrum, while demonstrating that his views of what war should be are more influenced by romantic fantasies than by any sense of reality.
I think Pej has already dealt with this feeble sally in a more than adequate manner, and the feeble droning from the strap-ons at Warblogger Watch has been dealt to severely by our very own attack Rottweiler.
warnow.blogspot.com /2002_08_25_warnow_archive.html   (14720 words)

  
 Whiskey Bar: War Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This creates the hope that in Iraq, as in Clausewitz's doctrine, civil war is the continuation of politics by other means, not the opening salvo of the war of the all against the all.
It would be a war in which a military industrial complex that doesn't know any other way to fight would use technology and massive firepower to try to obliterate an invisible army that swims through the cities and villages of the Islamic world like fish through the proverbial sea.
I've read and considered the views of those who argue the American occupation is provoking, not restraining the march towards civil war, and that a U.S. withdrawal would lead to a reduction in violence, not an explosion of it.
billmon.org /archives/cat_war.html   (17242 words)

  
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feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
feeble and frail looking USD but also is eating into the Indian IT industry that has so proudly boasted of its strength and might in the recent years.
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 Lawrence County, Ohio Genealogy and History
The list is not complete, as it is known that twenty other soldiers, whose military service (in the War of the Rebellion and former wars) has not yet been ascertained, are buried in that cemetery.
Correctness as to statement of service and date of death, or burial, is not vouched for as to every one in the list given.
Oak trees fall; young acorns spring, men, too, new-sent from the Unknown, of tiniest size, wax into stature, into strength of sinew, passionate fire and light; in other men the light is growing dim, the sinews all feeble; they sink motionless into ashes, into visibility, return back to the Unknown, beckoning you their mute farewell.
lawrencecountyohio.com /civilwar/stories/GrandArmy.html   (3805 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - Civil Rights on the Gridiron
Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and by a woeful 1960 season consisting of one victory, sportswriters and fans assailed the ban on fls.
He denounced the decision to hold the Civil War Centennial at a segregated hotel in Charleston, S.C. And he belatedly authorized the Justice Department to send U.S. marshals to the deep South to protect freedom-riders protesting segregation in interstate travel.
Assessing JFK's civil rights record, fl leader F.L. Shuttlesworth wrote that "where so little has been done for so long, any little may appear to be large." And Sen. Kenneth Keating (R-N.Y.) called the action against the Redskins a clever subterfuge to distinguish the administration's feeble civil rights record.
www.espn.go.com /page2/wash/s/2002/0305/1346021.html   (5185 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution (1.11 Dual Power)
The period of the Constituent Assembly is a clearly-marked period of dual power, which ends with the flight of the king to Varennes, and is formally liquidated with the founding of the Republic.
But before it comes to war and the guillotine, the Paris Commune enters the scene – supported by the lowest city layers of the Third Estate – and with increasing boldness contests the power with the official representatives of the national bourgeoisie.
During the war the czar’s ministers complained that Prince Lvov was furnishing supplies to the army, feeding it, medicating it, even establishing barber shops for the soldiers.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1930-hrr/ch11.htm   (3081 words)

  
 You will not like me : the John Wilmot fanlisting
Wilmot was on bad terms with some of the king’s friends and advisers, including Prince Rupert, and in 1644 he is reported to have said that Charles was afraid of peace and to have advised his supercession by his son, the prince of Wales.
According to Anthony Hamilton, banishment from court for lampooning the king or his mistresses was with Rochester an almost annual occurrence, but his disgrace was never of long duration.
In spite of the king’s support of Rochester’s suit, Miss Malet refused to marry the earl, who thereupon had her seized (1665) from her uncle’s coach.
www.sky-reflection.com /wilmot/realjohn.htm   (1049 words)

  
 ATKINS V. VIRGINIA
Instead, they were often committed to civil confinement or made wards of the State, thereby preventing them from “go[ing] loose, to the terror of the king’s subjects.” 4 Blackstone 25; see also S. Brakel, J. Parry, & B. Weiner, The Mentally Disabled and the Law 12—14 (3d ed.
The Court attempts to bolster its embarrassingly feeble evidence of “consensus” with the following: “It is not so much the number of these States that is significant, but the consistency of the direction of change.” Ante, at 10 (emphasis added).
But the Prize for the Court’s Most Feeble Effort to fabricate “national consensus” must go to its appeal (deservedly relegated to a footnote) to the views of assorted professional and religious organizations, members of the so-called “world community,” and respondents to opinion polls.
straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/00-8452.ZD1.html   (4280 words)

  
 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL - REPENT!
He was water skiing and waiting in a restaurant for a ride.
King Ahab and Jezebel were both empowered and removed by the mighty hand of God (PS 2:1-4).
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
www.alaska.net /~gabriml/abrahamlincoln.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Crescent Blues| Ann McMillan: Civil War Voices
In fact, I couldn't put it down, despite the fact that I was reading it during a power flout, huddled in a blanket by a feeble fire in a room that didn't feel much warmer than the 20-degree temperature outside.
McMillan: What got me over my rebellious stage in relation to the Civil War was the work of historians like Catherine Clinton, Drew Gilpin Faust, Sharla Fett and Suzanne Lebsock, who focus on the women, slaves and free fls.
Crescent Blues: I've heard it said that one of the greatest tragedies of the Civil War is that it took place at a time when the technology of warfare had advanced at a far more rapid rate than medical skill and knowledge.
www.crescentblues.com /2_1issue/mcmillan.shtml   (1719 words)

  
 War of Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the late 1400's the House of York fought the House of Lancaster for the English crown.
Because Lancaster's heraldic badge was a red rose and York's was a white rose, the long conflict came to be known as the Wars of the Roses (1455 - 85).
The wars started when the nobles of York rose against Henry VI of Lancaster who was a feeble ruler.
www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/roses.html   (131 words)

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