Horatio Gates Quotes
Let the Land rejoice, for you have bought Louisiana for a Song.
Horatio Gates, 1728?-1806, Revolutionary War Adjutant General, Member of the New York State Legislature, Remark to Thomas Jefferson regarding the Louisiana Purchase, July 18, 1803
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Actually starting in the Obama Administration, his ship and a NOAAA Government Research ship both were surveying the new undersea areas, However, it would take 20 such ships to do the job in the next decade–so vast was the new territory that we now have.
Welliver was the first of the American presidential speechwriters. President Harding was the one who used the term in public.
Later, Jefferson’s then Secretary of State, James Monroe, when President, would promulgate the Monroe Doctrine limiting the activities of foreign powers in the Western Hemisphere. Here it was immediately adjacent to the then United States.
Belrin had actually written an earlier version during World War I
Americans General William Hull had crossed the Canadian border with 2500 men announcing his intention to invade. Brock’s appeal to the loyalty of English-Canadians to fight off the Americans was in their self-interest as English. He argued that if Canada weakened or the Americans temporarily conquered Canada, they could not hold it, and Napoleon's France would re-colonize Canada. In short, fight against the Americans and keep the French out.
Drake named the land Nova Albion.
He and the 7th Cavalry were themselves whipped and killed shortly thereafter.
Jefferson had insisted that the expedition was purely scientific. The fact that it was lead by two military officers and involved soldiers led many to suspect the expedition was an “invasion” of what was then officially Spanish Territory. The very small size of the expedition made the concept of an expansion effort seemingly ridiculous to many. Jefferson was never public about his hopes fort the eventual possibilities but Martinez seemed to have gotten it right but was paid little heed.
In 1852, when the national debate on slavery was raging, Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published and within 16 months had sold a million copies. Its mass media effect developed a ground swell against slavery as well as over 30 rebuttal books. Many credited her book with the consciousness raising that was necessary to support the North and alarm the South.
Cuba has been in American sights for a long time.
This was the beginning of the Jeffersonian effort culminating in the Corps of Discovery and the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Presidential, confidential memoranda to the Congress were more common then than now when they have become a rarity.
Jackson’s policies regarding Indians set back all the work of the earlier Presidents and created facts on the ground and attitudes that vex us to this day. In this occasion he said very forthrightly that it was his intention to deny Indians title to ANY land in the then United States. His idea was to send all the Indians to the Oklahoma Indian Territory and establish reservations for them there. Of course, as the Western states joined the Union, the Whites wanted those Indian Lands as well. See {643150} for other Jackson views on Indian policy.
Horatio Lloyd Gates was a British-born soldier who served as a leading American general during the early years of the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory in the Battles of Saratoga (1777) – a matter of contemporary and historical controversy – and was blamed for the defeat at the Battle of Camden in 1780. Gates has been described as "one of the Revolution's most controversial military figures" because of his role in the Conway Cabal, which attempted to discredit and replace General George Washington; the battle at Saratoga; and his actions during and after his defeat at Camden.
