American Progress: Or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including Also Life Delineations of Our Most Noted Men. A Book for the Times

Richard Miller Devens

H. Heron, 1883 - Industries - 739 pages

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Ringing of the Bell July 4th 1776	25

Twenty Sudden and Terrible Blows with a Solid Gutta Percha Cane Dealt upon Mr Sumners	26

II	32

III	40

Traveling during the Dark Day	44

Shipof War Serapis in British Waters Crowds of Spectators Line the Coast The Most Sangui	46

General Arnold with Autograph	52

CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS HIS SPLENDID ARMY TO GENERAL WASHINGTON 1781	55

Instinctive Dread of Pain Persistent Search for a Preventive Discovery of the LongSought	324

INVENTION OF THAT WONDROUS PIECE OF MECHANISM THE SEWING 1846	332

OF MEXICO Irritation between the United States and Mexico Points of Boundary Mexico	347

EXPEDITION TO THE RIVER JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA BY LIEUT W F 1847	354

of the Precious Metal Simple Accident that Led to It The Discovery Kept Secret How it	360

demics at Different Periods Frightful Mortality and Panic Business Abandoned Churches Closed	368

267	370

PROF JOHN W WEBSTER OF HARVARD COLLEGE High Social Position of the Par	376

Him King Indignantly Rebukes the Proposal Last Review of His Troops Affecting Interview	63

Amity between England and America	70

VIII	77

IX	84

Clairs Army in 1791 Before the Trained Warriors of Little Turtle This Mortifying Disaster	91

to the United States Excise Laws Monster Meetings and Inflammatory Appeals Officials	105

Words Fortitude and Serenity Through all His Sufferings He Calmly Announces His Approach	119

7	123

27	131

and Planets in Full Radiance Magnificent Spectacle of the Glittering Corona around the Moon	134

55	137

ion at the Southwest A New Empire Contemplated with Burr as SovereignSeizure of His Flo	142

51	146

72	153

Force Felt all Over the Valley of the Mississippi and to the Atlantic Coast The Earth Suddenly	156

TIME IN A SQUADRON FIGHT Lake Erie the Scene of the Encounter Sixteen Vessels	163

74	170

GENERAL JACKSONS TERRIBLE ROUT AND SLAUGHTER OF THE BRITISH 1815	171

79	176

Tempest Suffocating Current of Hot Air All New England Desolated	178

VISIT OF LAFAYETTE TO AMERICA AS THE GUEST OF THE REPUBLIC AT 1824	186

98	193

DUEL BETWEEN HENRY CLAY SECRETARY OF STATE AND JOHN RANDOLPH 1826	196

THE GREAT DEBATE BETWEEN WEBSTER AND HAYNE IN CONGRESS Vi1830	205

Ira D Sankey Portrait	210

RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE MORMONS OR LATTERDAY SAINTS UNDER 1830	214

CAREER CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF GIBBS THE MOST NOTED PIRATE 1831	222

GIBBS BUTCHERING THE CREW OF ONE	226

and Brilliant Celestial Phenomenon Ever Beheld and Recorded by Man The Whole Firmament	228

Remarkable Meteoric Display on the Missis	233

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JACKSON AT THE UNITED 1835	236

Old Man Eloquent Carries on a Contest of Eleven Days Single Handed in its Defense in	252

Flames Encircles the Earth Arches of Resplendent Auroral Glories Span the Hemisphere Innu	269

in the United States Origin Rapid Spread Influence and Wonderful History of the Movement	276

100	281

the South Pass Plants the American Flag on the Highest Peak of that Lofty Range He Enriches	285

Trial	286

SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF A GREAT AND FIERY COMET IN THE SKIES AT 1843	300

citing Prediction of the Second Advent of Christ The Speedy Fulfillment of the LatterDay Bible	307

V	310

AWFUL EXPLOSION OF COMMODORE STOCKTONS GREAT GUN THE PEACE 1844	315

Thousand Persons Welcome Her Arrival Transcendent Beauty and Power of Her Voice	386

P T Barnum Portrait and Autograph	392

America Distances by Nearly Eight Miles the Whole Fleet of Swift and Splendid Competitors	403

189	407

THE INVITED GUEST OF THE NATION Splendid Military Pageant in New York on	412

OR KOSSUTH IN NEW YORK	417

EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS IN NEW YORK Construction 1853	421

LOSS OF THE SPLENDID COLLINS STEAMSHIP ARCTIC OF NEW YORK BY 1854	429

316	443

Great Panic A Sudden Universal Crash in the Height of Prosperity Caused by Wild Speculations	447

POLITICAL DEBATE BETWEEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND STEPHEN A DOUG 1858	469

ties of Illuminating Oil in the Depths of the Earth Boring of Innumerable Wells Fabulous Prices	476

BURNING OF ONE OF THE GREAT OIL WELLS	482

Ambassadors Simmi Boojsen Nokami	491

TOUR OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES 1860	493

the United States First Military Act in the Long and Bloody Struggle to Dismember the Union	501

General Beauregard with Autograph	507

Ideal of a Mechanical Miracle Principle Structure and Operation of the Machine NetWork	509

Mr Rareys Method of Taming Horses	518

EXTRAORDINARY COMBAT BETWEEN THE IRONCLADS MERRIMAC AND MON 1862	526

One Hundred Thousand Men on Each Side General McClellan Declares on the Field that it	535

CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICKSBURG THE GIBRALTAR OF THE MISSISSIPPI 1863	554

THREE DAYS BATTLE BETWEEN THE CONCENTRATED ARMIES OF GENER 1863	563

ORATORICAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICAS CAUSE IN ENGLAND BY REV H 1863	573

COMBAT BETWEEN THE ALABAMA CAPTAIN SEMMES AND THE KEAR 1864	581

THIRTY THOUSAND MILES OF RAILWAY IN THIRTY YEARS AND EIGHTY 1839	645

THE NORTHWEST Most Destructive Conflagration in the History of Civilized Nations	653

Changes Sought in the Relations between Producers and Consumers General Declaration	660

of the Highest Civilization Condition of the Country Previous to such Efforts Early Scenes	667

312	676

Secretary Seward Portrait and Autograph 515	683

Jubilee Festival and Pageant throughout the Land Prosperity Power and Renown of the	689

SIEGE AT VICKSBURG BY GENERAL GRANT 557	691

General Meade with Autograph	697

575	703

MAC RAILWAY STATION IN WASHINGTON JULY 2 His Departure from the White	708

Admiral Farragut	716

General Sherman Portrait and Autograph	722

Dense Black Atmosphere for Fifteen Hours The Herds Retire to their Stalls the Fowls to their	729

207	735

OCEAN The Old World and the New United by Instantaneous Communication Pronounced	737

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Title	American Progress: Or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including Also Life Delineations of Our Most Noted Men. A Book for the Times
Author	Richard Miller Devens
Publisher	H. Heron, 1883
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	2 Nov 2007
Length	739 pages

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