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... give 1,000 ducats security to return within three years . " " There were also strict rules about passing from one province in America to another . This could not be done without special leave from the king . “ The inhabitants of the ...
... give 1,000 ducats security to return within three years . " " There were also strict rules about passing from one province in America to another . This could not be done without special leave from the king . “ The inhabitants of the ...
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... give any assurance for their future independence , the in- habitants , who had now learned how insignificant the invading force really was , began to prepare for re- sistance . A leader was readily found in the person of Jacques Liniers ...
... give any assurance for their future independence , the in- habitants , who had now learned how insignificant the invading force really was , began to prepare for re- sistance . A leader was readily found in the person of Jacques Liniers ...
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... give to trace the vary- ing fortunes of the cause in Chile through the stirring events that marked the leadership of Dr. Rosas , of the Carrera brothers , and of Bernardo O'Higgins . After the final collapse , O'Higgins , with a number ...
... give to trace the vary- ing fortunes of the cause in Chile through the stirring events that marked the leadership of Dr. Rosas , of the Carrera brothers , and of Bernardo O'Higgins . After the final collapse , O'Higgins , with a number ...
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... give the people of Peru a chance to rise and throw off the yoke of Spain . To this end he scattered proclamations and addresses of a revolu- tionary character broadcast through the land and quietly awaited results . The contest in Peru ...
... give the people of Peru a chance to rise and throw off the yoke of Spain . To this end he scattered proclamations and addresses of a revolu- tionary character broadcast through the land and quietly awaited results . The contest in Peru ...
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... give them the opportunity to do so in safety . It was in sure expecta- tion of this movement that I have hitherto deferred advanc- ing ; and to those who know the full extent of the means which have been put in action , a sufficient ...
... give them the opportunity to do so in safety . It was in sure expecta- tion of this movement that I have hitherto deferred advanc- ing ; and to those who know the full extent of the means which have been put in action , a sufficient ...
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Page 133 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said Island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the Island to its people.
Page 76 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 139 - That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 75 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 188 - I am interested in the Panama Canal because I started it. If I had followed traditional, conservative methods, I should have submitted a dignified state paper of probably two hundred pages to the Congress, and the debate would have been going on yet.
Page 149 - States that the right of way or transit across the Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the Government and citizens of the United States...
Page 242 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Page 330 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its policy over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened. unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 104 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question — Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question In.
Page 331 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.