 | Robert Greenhow - America - 1840 - 250 pages
...Biddle, the commander of the sloop of war Ontario, were jointly commissioned to proceed to the mouth of the Columbia, and there to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the country, in a friendly and peacefuJ manner, and without the employment of force. Mr. Astor had, in the mean... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - California - 1844 - 516 pages
...war Ontario, and Mr. JB Prevost, were jointly commissioned to proceed in that ship to the mouth of the Columbia, and there " to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent country, in a friendly and peaceable manner, and without the employment of force." * A few... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1861 - 698 pages
...sovereignty. In its instructions to Captain Biddle in 1817, it directed him to proceed to the mouth of the Columbia, and there " to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent country, in a friendly and peaceable manner, and without the employment of force." This order... | |
 | John Adams Dix - United States - 1864 - 466 pages
...sovereignty. In its instructions to Captain Biddle in 1817, it directed him to proceed to the mouth of the Columbia, and there " to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent country, in a friendly and peaceable manner, and without the employment of force." This order... | |
 | Albert G. Walling - History - 1884 - 640 pages
...this errand, the captain, J. Biddle, and J. B Prevost, his associate commissioner, being instructed to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the country adjacent to the Columbia, but to do so in a friendly and peaceable manner. Soon after the departure... | |
 | Gustavus Hines - Missions - 1881 - 450 pages
...Government to re-occupy the post at the mouth of the Columbia river. In 1817, Captain J. Biddle and JB Prevost were commissioned to proceed to the Columbia,...directing them to give every facility in their power tc the agents of the united States Government, for the re-occupation of Fort George, as a place that... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry - Northwest, Pacific - 1901 - 392 pages
...war Ontario, and Mr. JB Provost were jointly commissioned to proceed in that vessel to the mouth of the Columbia and there " to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent country in a friendly and peaceable manner and without the employment of force."1 The British... | |
 | william a mowry am phd - 1902
...war Ontario, and Mr. JB Prevost, were jointly commissioned to proceed in that ship to the mouth of the Columbia, and there, " to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent country, in a friendly and peaceable manner, and without the employment of force." '" A few... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry - United States - 1902 - 292 pages
...war Ontario, and Mr. JB Prevost, were jointly commissioned to proceed in that ship to the mouth of the Columbia, and there, " to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent country, in a friendly and peaceable manner, and without the employment of force." ' A few... | |
 | Jesse Siddall Reeves - Political Science - 1907 - 358 pages
...the vessel, and JB Prevost were jointly commissioned to restore the Ameri'can flag over Astoria and to "assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent coun_try in a friendly and peaceable manner and without the employment of force." No attempt... | |
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Biddle, commanding the sloop of war Ontario, and Mr. JB Prevost, were jointly commissioned to proceed in that ship to the mouth of the Columbia, and there " to assert the claim of the United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent country, in a friendly... 
