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As we travelled from settlement to settlement, we, too, heard something of what had happened in distant districts: how the Schoharie militia had been called out; how one Huetson had been captured as he was gathering a band of Tories to join the Butlers; how a certain Captain Ball had raised a company of sixty-three royalists at Beaverdam and was fled to join Sir John; how Captain George Mann, of the militia, refused service, declaring himself a royalist, and disbanding his company; how Adam Crysler had thrown his important influence in favor of the King, and that the inhabitants of Tryon County were gloomy and depressed, seeing so many respectable gentlemen siding with the Tories.
Gordon's headquarters were in boats, and Hart and his little party one of whom, Colonel Mann Stuart, afterwards helped to keep the line of communications open for Gordon in Khartoum moored his flotilla alongside.
It's best you should make up your mind to it; if you don't, you may find it out by the hardest. That's all. I ain't never goin' to bring this up again." "I'd like to know what you mean, father." Thomas's voice shook with embarrassment and anger. "I ain't goin' to say anything more about it," replied the old man. "Mary Ann Pease and Arabella Mann are both in the settin'-room with your mother.
We are now beginning to see the hand of Providence, and to realize how great was the work that these people did for their own country and for the world. And Marlowe Mann whose name stands for the Christian schoolmaster no one knows where he sleeps now; perhaps no one, surely but a few. He saw his college-mates rise to honor and fame. They offered him positions, but he knew his place in the world.
The main section of the first party came a few days later, and was on the ground for a celebration of the centennial Fourth of July that centered around the flagstaff. Mann also remembers that Major Maynadier, one of the leaders of the expedition, surveyed a townsite for Flagstaff, each of the members of the expedition being allotted a tract. The second party joined the first at Flagstaff.
Say! don't you think so? perfect despera-a-ado great pity, 'pon my honor! wonderfully inventive age! pro-o-odigies of valor! By the by, did you ever hear about Captain Ma-a-a-a-n?" "Captain Mann be d d!" said I; "please to go on with your story." "Hem! oh well! quite la meme cho-o-ose, as we say in France. Smith, eh? Smith? John A-B-C.? Why, bless me, he's the ma-a-an" "Mr.
It was as if, while they sat there before Tom Mann, they had seen being made, being hammered out before them, a new world. I rubbed my eyes. It seemed to me precisely like the old one. And all the trouble for nothing. All the disaster, the proposed starvation, and panic for nothing. There was one single possible difference in it.
It was about this time that Napoleon, having dispatched General Forey with a fresh army to Mexico, wrote the famous letter which gave notice to the world of what he was about. Mann wrote home in alarm that the Emperor might be expected to attempt recovering Mexico's ancient areas including Texas.
The well-to-do planters were angered when their horses and corn were taken for the expedition, but at any show of resistance they were threatened and intimidated. One of Bacon's men told John Mann, "with many fearful oaths, as God damn his blood, sink him and rot him, he would ruin him." It was late in July when Bacon drew up his army of seven hundred horse and six hundred foot.
I had just come to the city, a country boy, from my home in Lisle, N. Y., to attend the Horace Mann School. As I walked across Madison Square, I glanced toward the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, where my eyes fell upon the scene depicted in the accompanying picture.
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