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... took on all the goods she could , and carried along with her five or six smaller vessels laden with goods . When she got near Porto Bello , all her provisions were put in the tenders and the goods these bore taken aboard . She then ...
... took on all the goods she could , and carried along with her five or six smaller vessels laden with goods . When she got near Porto Bello , all her provisions were put in the tenders and the goods these bore taken aboard . She then ...
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... took to flight . Miranda then sailed for Barbados , where he solicited aid from the British admiral , Lord Cochrane , in command on the West Indian station . Lord Cochrane , without definite instructions from his gov- ernment , but ...
... took to flight . Miranda then sailed for Barbados , where he solicited aid from the British admiral , Lord Cochrane , in command on the West Indian station . Lord Cochrane , without definite instructions from his gov- ernment , but ...
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... took posses- sion of the little island of Aruba off the coast . Lord Cochrane , seeing that the expedition was a failure , and not wishing further to compromise his govern- ment , sent no reinforcements and finally ordered the ...
... took posses- sion of the little island of Aruba off the coast . Lord Cochrane , seeing that the expedition was a failure , and not wishing further to compromise his govern- ment , sent no reinforcements and finally ordered the ...
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... took the oath were continued in office . When Beresford refused to proclaim the independence of the province , or to give any assurance for their future independence , the in- habitants , who had now learned how insignificant the ...
... took the oath were continued in office . When Beresford refused to proclaim the independence of the province , or to give any assurance for their future independence , the in- habitants , who had now learned how insignificant the ...
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... took the latter two years to organize and equip an army and to convince the government of Buenos Aires of the prac- ticability of his plan . At length , on January 17 , 1817 , he began the pas- sage of the Andes with about 5,000 men ...
... took the latter two years to organize and equip an army and to convince the government of Buenos Aires of the prac- ticability of his plan . At length , on January 17 , 1817 , he began the pas- sage of the Andes with about 5,000 men ...
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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.