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Excerpt from Recollections of Persons and Places in the WestA disturbance in the Wigwam - New Madrid - ah interesting family - late news of Braddock's defeat - St Genevieve - an in eident worthy of romance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to...

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Excerpt from Voyage to South America, Preformed by Order of the American Government in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress, Vol. 1 of 2Tion with respect to the geography, statistics, and history of New Spain, Venezuela, Peru, Chili, and La Plata. Without naming any others, it would require at least six months to become master of all the information laboriously collected by these authors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Mexican Letters Written During the Progress of the Late War Between the United States and Mexico, Vol. 1Determine. As 'to Mexico, I have long been of opinion, that we could never have a peace on a last ing foundation, without a war. If that neighboring and jealous people had still remained united to the Spanish monarchy, it would have been the same thing. This event was but removed farther off, or post poned by the acquisition of ...

Excerpt from Voyage to South America, Performed by Order of the American Government in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress, Vol. 2 of 2Wearenotapettystateonthe bordersot'europe, buta mighty! Airman, placed at such a distance team other nations, astorenderuseven now, the mod wnw tion on the globe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

Excerpt from An Essay on Trusts and Trustees: In Relation to the Settlement of Real Estate, the Power of Trustees, and Involving Many of the Most Abstruse Questions in the English and American Law of TenuresThe law of trusts and trustees, and on the various topics connected with them, this has been done already by several authors, such as Gilbert, San ders, Cornish, Willis, Wilson, &c., but merely to illustrate some important points, for which...

Excerpt from Histoire de la Guerre Entre les Etats-Unis d'Amérique Et l'Angleterre, Vol. 1: Pendant les Années 1812, 13, 14 Et 15Cependant l'angleterre voyait, avec un dépit qu'elle ne cherchait pas même à dissimuler, les progrès rapides que faisait la fortune de ses anciennes colonies, et dans l'espoir d'entraver leur marche pros père il n'y eut pas d'outrages, d'injus'ti ces, qu'elle ne se. Permit envers elles. L'amérique aurait dû, sans dou...

Excerpt from Views of Louisiana: Together With a Journal of a Voyage Up the Missouri River, in 1811In conformity to'the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein menuoned.-and also to the Act, entitled, An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act forthe encourage ment...

Excerpt from Journal of a Voyage Up the River Missouri: Performed in Eighteen Hundred and Eleven by H. M. Brackenridge, Esq.Tee following is the Journal of a voyage, Of four or five months, on the Missouri river, beyond the settlements. The voyage was undertaken in the Spirit of adventure, which characterises so many Of our countrymen, and with little or no expectation Of profit or advantage. The accounts received from difierent persons had gr...

About the Book Books on Italian History often commence with the rise of Rome, beginning as a small kingdom, and growing into the Roman Empire eventually spanned the entire peripheries of the Mediterranean Sea, the superhighway of its day. The empire succumbed to the Goths, but Italy rose again, leading the Renaissance in art and science, and leading in exploration and trade that created wealth. While the French and Hapsburg empires captured pa...

Excerpt from Early Discoveries by Spaniards in New Mexico: Containing an Account of the Castles of Cibola, and the Present Appearance of Their RuinsI had read, with considerable interest, the notice of ruins on the Gila and Rio Grande, of a different character from any discovered in Mexico, Yucatan, or Guatimala. I was convinced that the received notion, that these were the original seats of the successive swarms of Olmecs, Toltecs, and Aztecs...

Excerpt from History of the Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania: Commonly Called the Whiskey Insurrection, 1794Now, if the mere circumstance of addressing a letter to Bradford by the insurgent Brackenridge, was a ground of suspicion, what shall we say of the friendly letter addressed to that person by Major Craig, shortly before Bradford's ¿ight, as a self-convicted traitor, with all the wrongs done or intended to the Neville connecti...

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Excerpt from Histoire de la Guerre Entre les Etats-Unis d'Amérique Et l'Angleterre, Vol. 1: Pendant les Années 1812, 13, 14 Et 15Cependant l'angleterre voyait, avec un dépit qu'elle ne cherchait pas même à dissimuler, les progrès rapides que faisait la fortune de ses anciennes colonies, et dans l'espoir d'entraver leur marche pros père il n'y eut pas d'outrages, d'injus'ti ces, qu'elle ne se. Permit envers elles. L'amérique aurait dû, sans dou...

Excerpt from Voyage to South America, Preformed by Order of the American Government in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress, Vol. 1 of 2Tion with respect to the geography, statistics, and history of New Spain, Venezuela, Peru, Chili, and La Plata. Without naming any others, it would require at least six months to become master of all the information laboriously collected by these authors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes...

Excerpt from Voyage to South America, Performed by Order of the American Government in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress, Vol. 2 of 2 Wearenotapettystateonthe bordersot'europe, buta mighty! Airman, placed at such a distance team other nations, astorenderuseven now, the mod wnw tion on the globe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com ...

Excerpt from An Essay on Trusts and Trustees: In Relation to the Settlement of Real Estate, the Power of Trustees, and Involving Many of the Most Abstruse Questions in the English and American Law of Tenures Beautiful production. The author is very far from indulging the hope of a similar success, yet works of this kind are particularly valuable to the student, because they not only explain the principles of the science, or of a branch of it,...