A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America: With an Appendix, and Plates, Volume 1author, 1818 - Ontario |
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... vessels belong ; and a self- redress is assumed , which , if British subjects . were wrongfully detained and alone concerned , is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign , which falls within the de- finition ...
... vessels belong ; and a self- redress is assumed , which , if British subjects . were wrongfully detained and alone concerned , is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign , which falls within the de- finition ...
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... vessels of belligerents hovering near her coasts , and disturbing her commerce , are well known . When called on , ne- vertheless , by the United States , to punish the greater offences committed by her own vessels , her government has ...
... vessels of belligerents hovering near her coasts , and disturbing her commerce , are well known . When called on , ne- vertheless , by the United States , to punish the greater offences committed by her own vessels , her government has ...
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... vessels freighted with the products of our soil and industry , or returning with the honest pro- ceeds of them , wrested from their lawful desti- nations , confiscated by prize - courts , no longer the organs of public law , but the ...
... vessels freighted with the products of our soil and industry , or returning with the honest pro- ceeds of them , wrested from their lawful desti- nations , confiscated by prize - courts , no longer the organs of public law , but the ...
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... vessels and our citizens . It will have been seen also , that no indemnity had been provided , or satisfacto rily pledged , for the extensive spoliations com- mitted under the violent and retrospective order of the French government ...
... vessels and our citizens . It will have been seen also , that no indemnity had been provided , or satisfacto rily pledged , for the extensive spoliations com- mitted under the violent and retrospective order of the French government ...
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... vessels . Nothing could better demonstrate to the world the dif- ferent feelings which actuated the two govern- ments . The American declaration of war reached the British government on the 30th of July ; but , in the firm reliance that ...
... vessels . Nothing could better demonstrate to the world the dif- ferent feelings which actuated the two govern- ments . The American declaration of war reached the British government on the 30th of July ; but , in the firm reliance that ...
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