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At the same time the Nor'westers dispatched an overland expedition to the Columbia. They succeeded in their mission, and in the month of October 1813 Astor's fort was sold to the North-West Company and renamed Fort George. The methods of fur traders have been the same the world over: to frighten a rival off the ground if possible; if not, then to buy him off.
The Chilian admiral, Blanco Encalada, had succeeded in capturing a Spanish fifty-gun frigate, which had been renamed the O’Higgins; but this was only a temporary success; and with his undisciplined and badly-equipped fleet he was quite unable to withstand the threatened attack of the Spaniards. Lord Cochrane had to encounter troubles from the outset.
Sparling, "in view of the fact that you and Phil have renamed the 'River Queen' and the 'Mary Jane, I suppose you will not be satisfied until you have rechristened the 'Nemah. What will you call her?" "'Little Nemo," answered the lad promptly. "You boys beat anything I ever came across in all my circus experience," remarked Mr. Sparling. "Where do we sleep?" asked Phil.
Germany knows that; England knows it; Austria knows it; and from the jackstaff of the late Bavarian, now renamed the Alden M. Peasley, in honor of my first grandson, there floats " J. Augustus Redell raised his index finger, enjoining silence: "Now then! One, two, three! Down, left, up!
The common price of a bushel of alum salt, at an early period, was a good cow and a calf." Thus, with the English flag afloat at Fort Pitt, as Duquesne was renamed after its capture, a new day dawned for the great region to the West. Beyond the Alleghanies and as far as the Rockies, a new science of transportation was now to be learned the art of finding the dividing ridge.
They were filming J. N. Gardner's novel, Romance of Arcady, but they had renamed it Let's Get a Husband. The heroine in the novel was the young wife of twenty-seven who had been married five years. This was Harrietta's part. In the book there had been a young girl, too a saccharine miss of seventeen who was the minor love interest. This was Lydia Lissome's part.
In mentioning the names of celebrated men and terriers of years gone by, reference must be made to a terrier shown some time ago, which was as good, taken all round, as any that have so far appeared. This was Ch. Quantock Nettle, afterwards purchased by a gentleman in Wales and renamed Lexden Nettle.
Until now its upper course has been utterly unknown to every one, and its lower course, although known for years to the rubber men, utterly unknown to cartographers." The Brazilian Government renamed the river in his honor, first the Rio Roosevelt, later the Rio Teodoro.
Its fame spread like lightning over Europe, and quickly reached England. In London the whole atmosphere seemed to vibrate with its melodies. In Paris, however, it did not please on first hearing, perhaps because it was so thoroughly German. But somewhat later, when renamed "Robin des Bois," "Robin of the Forest," it was performed some three hundred and fifty times before being withdrawn.
The Confederates at once took possession, raised the vessels, and out of one of them, a steamer called the Merrimac. made an ironclad ram, which they renamed the Virginia and sent forth to destroy the wooden vessels of the United States then assembled in Chesapeake Bay.
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