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The Great Republic, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
The Great Republic Vol 3 - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Morris THE GREAT REPUBLIC BY THE MASTER HISTORIANS. TWO YEARS OF WAR. Charles Morris. The closing act of Jefferson's administration, passed on March i, 1809, was a repeal of the embargo, whose effect had been so ruinous to American commerce, and the passage of a bill interdicting all commercial Intercourse with France and England. Jefferson, after his ... more »eight years' term, had, like Washington under the same circumstances, declined a re-election, and James Madison was made President, while George Clinton, Jefferson's second Vice-President, was re-elected. The trouble with France and England continued. The British minister at Washington agreed that the " Orders in Council" should be repealed so far as they affected the United States, but this promise was disavowed by his government, and non-intercourse, which had been suspended, was re-proclaimed. Bonaparte, in March, 1810, issued a hostile decree against American commerce, but in November he revoked this and all simi- b
Table of Contents
Two Years of War; The Constitution and the Guerriere; Perry's Victory on Lake Erie ; The Battle of the Thames; The Charge at Lundy's Lane; The Capture and Burning of Washington ; The Defence of New Orleans ; The First Quarter of the Century ; The Missouri Compromise; The Ordinance of Nullification; The Seminole War; The Battle of Buena Vista ; Events preceding the Civil War ; John Brown and the Raid on Harper's Ferry; Fort Sumter Bombarded ; The Monitor and the Merrimack ; The Conflict at Antietam; The Battle of Shiloh ; Farragut on the Mississippi; The Siege of Vicksburg ; Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge ; Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg ; author Charles Morris ; J T Headley 10; Theodore Roosevelt 18; Charles J Ingersoll 27; H M Brackenridge 32; Benson J Lossing 44; G R Gleig 56; Charles Morris 70; H Von Holst 89 Edward Everett 101 George R Fairbanks 112; John Frost 121; Charles Morris 134; Horace Greeley 147 Orville J Victor 156« less