The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual Words of the World's Best Historians, Biographers and Specialists: a Complete System of History for All Uses, Extending to All Countries and Subjects and Representing the Better and Newer Literature of History, Volume 6C.A. Nichols Publishing Company, 1923 - History |
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Page 4503
... troops was one regiment , of ten companies of seventy - eight men each , ' for immediate service . ' The governor immediately issued a call for the First Iowa Regi- ment of infantry . . . . A tidal wave of patriotism swept over the ...
... troops was one regiment , of ten companies of seventy - eight men each , ' for immediate service . ' The governor immediately issued a call for the First Iowa Regi- ment of infantry . . . . A tidal wave of patriotism swept over the ...
Page 4522
... troops - his household troops com- posed of his own people , and a small standing army usually composed of mercenaries . And the strongest , most powerful man was chosen as the king's airechta , champion or avenger . The king of the ...
... troops - his household troops com- posed of his own people , and a small standing army usually composed of mercenaries . And the strongest , most powerful man was chosen as the king's airechta , champion or avenger . The king of the ...
Page 4526
... troops devoted especially to warfare and always ready for it . Most of these were recruited from the Gaelicised Norse of Argyll and the Scottish islands . These , known as ' gall - óglaigh , ' or ' gallowglasses , ' had been employed by ...
... troops devoted especially to warfare and always ready for it . Most of these were recruited from the Gaelicised Norse of Argyll and the Scottish islands . These , known as ' gall - óglaigh , ' or ' gallowglasses , ' had been employed by ...
Page 4547
... troops under Colonel Wolseley , at Newtown Butler , where they attacked a much larger force of the enemy and defeated them , killing a large number and driving the rest back in confusion . William was still de- tained in England , but ...
... troops under Colonel Wolseley , at Newtown Butler , where they attacked a much larger force of the enemy and defeated them , killing a large number and driving the rest back in confusion . William was still de- tained in England , but ...
Page 4548
... troops showed no disposition , however , of yielding . Athlone , Galway , Cork , Kinsale and Limerick still held out , and behind the walls of the last named the remains of James's broken army was now chiefly collected . Those walls ...
... troops showed no disposition , however , of yielding . Athlone , Galway , Cork , Kinsale and Limerick still held out , and behind the walls of the last named the remains of James's broken army was now chiefly collected . Those walls ...
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Page 4455 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel : for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears...
Page 4586 - IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the Name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Page 4617 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 4802 - The High Contracting Parties agree that neither of them will, without consulting the other, enter into separate arrangements with another Power to the prejudice of the interests above described.
Page 4826 - The Emperor, in consequence of an urgent necessity to maintain public safety or to avert public calamities, issues, when the Imperial Diet is not sitting, Imperial Ordinances in the place of law. Such Imperial Ordinances are to be laid before the Imperial Diet at its next session, and when the Diet does not approve the said Ordinances, the Government shall declare them to be invalid for the future.
Page 4586 - In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty: six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
Page 4827 - The opening, closing, prolongation of session and prorogation of the Imperial Diet shall be effected simultaneously for both Houses. In case the House of Representatives has been ordered to dissolve, the House of Peers shall at the same time be prorogued.
Page 4586 - We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
Page 4828 - State shall be audited annually by a Board of Audit and submitted by the Cabinet to the Diet, together with the statement of audit, during the fiscal year immediately following the period covered.
Page 4826 - Japanese subjects shall, within limits not prejudicial to peace and order, and not antagonistic to their duties as subjects, enjoy freedom of religious belief.