337 BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION. (The names of the most important are in heavy-faced type. See preceding page.) Page 149. Long Island........Map, p. 148, and facing p. 125. Pages 147, 148. .Map, p. 156, and p. 158. The battle was fought partly Brandywine.... See Map, p. 154, and pp. 153, 154. .20 miles from Philadelphia. Map and note, p. 154. Germantown ... Now a part of Philadelphia. Map and p. 154. FORT CLINTON... See Map, p. 169, and note, p. 160. Saratoga.... .(2d Stillwater.) See Map. p. 156, and p. 159. HOBKIRK'S HILL. Near Camden, S. C. Map facing p. 125, and p. 173. Eutaw Springs.. In South Carolina. Map facing p. 125, and p. 173. Yorktown.. .Map facing p. 125, and p. 174; also p. 314. 1, 2, 3, 5.-For account of Taylor's battles, see pp. 238, 239. 4, 6.-General Kearny, marching from Missouri, took possession of New Mexico; and a division of his army under Colonel Doniphan, continuing the march, defeated the enemy at Bracito and Sacramento. 7-12.-For Scott's battles, see pp. 239-242. 9-12 were positions fortified by the Mexicans for the protection of the city of Mexico. General Worth distinguished himself while in command of the attack upon the Molino del Rey. 13.-General Lane, on his march with recruits for Scott, was attacked at Hua mantla by Santa Anna, after the latter's flight from the city of Mexico. ADMISSION OF THE STATES. ADMINISTRA TION. OHIO.-"In the case of every State except Ohio, Congress has either passed a distinct and definite act of admission, dating from the day of enactment or from a future day named, or has provided for an admission on the issue of a proclamation by the Presi dent. Ohio torms a case by itself, belonging to neither of these classes." In April, 1802, Congress passed "an act to enable the people of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such State into the Union." The people accordingly elected delegates to a convention, by whom a Constitution was formed (Nov., 1802), which, in January, 1803, was submitted to Congress for ratification; and, on the 19th of the following month the President approved the first act which recognized the new State, The true date of Ohio's admission to the Union is therefore the 19th of February, 1803. APPENDIX.* THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, July 4, 1776. WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of markind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect thei. safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governme ts long established, should not be changed for light and transien causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Sh has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world : |