The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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This order was promptly obeyed , and a military post was established at the place designated . The force was afterwards increased , so that by the last return the whole number of troops then on the island amounted in the aggregate to ...
This order was promptly obeyed , and a military post was established at the place designated . The force was afterwards increased , so that by the last return the whole number of troops then on the island amounted in the aggregate to ...
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Within a month afterwards he had been driven from the capital , and a military rebellion had assigned the supreme power of the republic to General Zuloaga . The constitution provided that , in the absence of the president , his office ...
Within a month afterwards he had been driven from the capital , and a military rebellion had assigned the supreme power of the republic to General Zuloaga . The constitution provided that , in the absence of the president , his office ...
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General Miramon maintains himself at the capital ; and in some of the distant provinces there are military governors who pay little respect to the decrees of either government . In the meantime the excesses which always attend upon ...
General Miramon maintains himself at the capital ; and in some of the distant provinces there are military governors who pay little respect to the decrees of either government . In the meantime the excesses which always attend upon ...
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For these reasons I recommend to Con- gress to pass a law authorizing the President , under such conditions as they may deem expedient , to employ a sufficient military force to enter Mexico for the purpose of obtaining indemnity for ...
For these reasons I recommend to Con- gress to pass a law authorizing the President , under such conditions as they may deem expedient , to employ a sufficient military force to enter Mexico for the purpose of obtaining indemnity for ...
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But the blockade of a coast , or of commercial positions along it , without any regard to ulterior military operations , and with the real design of carrying on a war against trade , and , from its very nature , against the trade of ...
But the blockade of a coast , or of commercial positions along it , without any regard to ulterior military operations , and with the real design of carrying on a war against trade , and , from its very nature , against the trade of ...
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| Title | The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
| Author | United States. President |
| Published | 1860 |
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