Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition of American Foreign PolicyNorman A. Graebner |
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... object of your mission , " he charged the frontiers- man , " is to explore the Missouri River , and such principal streams of it , as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean , may offer the most direct and ...
... object of your mission , " he charged the frontiers- man , " is to explore the Missouri River , and such principal streams of it , as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean , may offer the most direct and ...
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... object is to avert them from my country . I do it , sir , to check the precipitate step of plung- ing my country prematurely into a war , without any of the means of making the war terrible to our enemy ; and with the certainty that it ...
... object is to avert them from my country . I do it , sir , to check the precipitate step of plung- ing my country prematurely into a war , without any of the means of making the war terrible to our enemy ; and with the certainty that it ...
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... object is merely collateral to the great and ulterior design of supporting slavery and the slave trade . The object and purpose for which it is now sought to annex Texas to the United States is clearly and unequivocally set forth in the ...
... object is merely collateral to the great and ulterior design of supporting slavery and the slave trade . The object and purpose for which it is now sought to annex Texas to the United States is clearly and unequivocally set forth in the ...
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can Continent 1760 | 18 |
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John Adams at the Court of St Jamess June 1785 | 33 |
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