The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 |
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... tion • Services of sectarians in the war The Tories Resolutions of the Virginia Valley Germans The Salzburgers as patriots The German regiments Armand's Legion • Washington's body - guard Two types of German patriots : Peter Mühlenberg ...
... tion • Services of sectarians in the war The Tories Resolutions of the Virginia Valley Germans The Salzburgers as patriots The German regiments Armand's Legion • Washington's body - guard Two types of German patriots : Peter Mühlenberg ...
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... tion in the heart of Europe , with but a narrow strip of seacoast at the north , put them at a disadvantage in com- parison with the English , French , Dutch , Spaniards , and Portuguese . But while they were not conspicuous as lead ...
... tion in the heart of Europe , with but a narrow strip of seacoast at the north , put them at a disadvantage in com- parison with the English , French , Dutch , Spaniards , and Portuguese . But while they were not conspicuous as lead ...
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... tion he kept his stand securely , knowing minutely the weaknesses of his neighbors on either hand . He built Fort Christina in honor of the Swedish queen , about two miles from the confluence of the Minquaskill and the Delaware , very ...
... tion he kept his stand securely , knowing minutely the weaknesses of his neighbors on either hand . He built Fort Christina in honor of the Swedish queen , about two miles from the confluence of the Minquaskill and the Delaware , very ...
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... tion of property , and the illegal levying of taxes . The other councilors were set free , but the enemies of Leisler were determined to be revenged upon him . Apparently Governor Sloughter hesitated to sign a death - warrant , a spark ...
... tion of property , and the illegal levying of taxes . The other councilors were set free , but the enemies of Leisler were determined to be revenged upon him . Apparently Governor Sloughter hesitated to sign a death - warrant , a spark ...
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... tion in behalf of his father's memory , the English Parlia- ment reversed the attainder against Leisler and Milborne , justified Leisler's actions in every particular , and restored to his heirs the properties confiscated by the crown ...
... tion in behalf of his father's memory , the English Parlia- ment reversed the attainder against Leisler and Milborne , justified Leisler's actions in every particular , and restored to his heirs the properties confiscated by the crown ...
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acres American army arrived attack battle became born Captain Chapter Cincinnati Colonel colonists colony command congregations Congress Conrad Weiser County Delaware Der deutsche Pionier descendants deutsche Pionier district early English expedition Frederick French frontier George Georgia German element German immigration German population German settlements German settlers Germantown governor Herkimer Hessians hundred hunters Illinois Indians inhabitants Irish Jacob Jersey Johann John Kapp Kentucky land large number latter Leisler located Louis Ludwig Lutheran Church Madison County Maryland Mennonites ment miles militia missionaries Mississippi Missouri Mohawk Mohawk Valley Moravian Mühlenberg native North number of German officers Ohio Ohio River Palatines Pastorius Penn Pennsylvania German Peter Philadelphia Reverend Revolutionary River Rosengarten Salzburgers Schoharie sent served settled soldiers South Carolina Steuben sylvania Tennessee territory thousand tion Tories town troops Tuscarawas County United Valley Virginia Washington Weiser West Western Wetzel Wisconsin York Zweibrücken
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Halaman 361 - That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends ; that restless, nervous energy;* that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom — these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of the existence of the frontier.
Halaman 107 - It is the best Cause. It is the Cause of Liberty; and I make no Doubt but your upright Conduct, this Day, will not only entitle you to the Love and Esteem of your Fellow-Citizens; but every Man who prefers Freedom to a Life of slavery will bless and honor You, as Men who have baffled the Attempt of Tyranny; and by an impartial and uncorrupt Verdict, have laid a noble Foundation for securing to ourselves, our Posterity, and our Neighbors, That, to which Nature and the Laws of our Country have given...
Halaman 107 - ... it is not the cause of a poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every freeman that lives under a British government on the Main of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty...
Halaman 262 - The American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America...
Halaman 136 - German farm may be distinguished from the farms of the other citizens of the state, by the superior size of their barns; the plain, but compact form of their houses; the height of their enclosures; the extent of their orchards; the fertility of their fields; the luxuriance of their meadows, and a general appearance of plenty and neatness in everything that belongs to them.
Halaman 16 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Halaman 427 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.
Halaman 427 - Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
Halaman 359 - Our trade with New York and Philadelphia was of this sort, draining us of all the little money and bills we could gather from other places for their bread, flour, beer, hams, bacon, and other things of their produce, all which, except beer, our new townships begin to supply us with, which are settled with very industrious and thriving Germans.
Halaman 5 - Wherefore art thou so belated, foster-father mine, and astray from the others?" In the beginning Tyrker spoke for some time in German, rolling his eyes and grinning, and they could not understand him; but after a time he addressed them in the Northern tongue " I did not go much further [than you], and yet I have something of novelty to relate. I have found vines and grapes.