Expansion the History and Heredity of Our Race (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Gibson, H. R.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Expansion the History and Heredity of Our Race Mountains on the west, and no other nation disputed her sovereignty or her possession. But the spirit of expansion, the thirst of enterprise, and the love of adventure that have animated our race from the dawn of its history, and that first brought our ancestors from the Baltic Sea to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, then to the north of France, then from those regions to England, and then from England to America, where they laid the foundations of their final empire, were still inspiring the hearts, energizing the intellects, and propelling the footsteps of our ancestors. To roam, to explore, to occupy, and to build was their nature. The Almighty had made them so. This decree He had written in their souls, and it was a part of their very life. Hitherto this new and vigorous and wonderful race had crossed seas and bays and oceans, but had never yet crossed mountains. The Alleghenies barred their way to the West. On the other side was the yet unconquered red man. On the other side was the sovereignty of the great Kingdom of France. On the other side were boundless forests, unexplored wildernesses, unnavigated rivers, and unmeasured prairies. These formidable obstacles, obstacles that heretofore in the history of the world had been sufficient to divide people from people, race from race, and nation from nation, were no obstacles at all to the descendants of those mighty adventurers that had breasted the tempests and buffeted the billows in order to lay the foundations of their future empire on the continent of North America. Washington The First American Leader Of Expansion. And so our ancestors began to cross the Allegheny Mountains. The French resisted, and who was chosen to overcome that resistance? It was George Washington. George Washington it was who led the first army of American expansion. George Washington it was who fought the first battle in the first war of American expansion. And George Washington it was who won the first victory ever won in battle for American expansion. Then came on the great French and Indian war, which raged from 1754 to 1763, the Indians and the French on the one side and the British and the Americans on the other side; a war whose line of battle was a thousand miles, reaching from the Plains of Abraham in Upper Canada to Fort Loudon in what is now East Tennessee, a war waged by land and sea, a war waged by cannon and rifle, by tomahawk and scalping knife, a war whose zone of conflict was illuminated by the blazing homes of hundreds of the inhabitants of the frontiers and made hideous by the warwhoops of painted savages and the fearful cracks of the deadly rifle. The people of the American colonies never looked backward. Looking backward is not one of the characteristics of our race. We have not only always looked forward, but have looked far forward. In June, 1754, the representatives of the American colonies met in convention at Albany, N. Y., and agreed to unite in making defense against the French and Indians, and in an effort to drive them out of the country west of the Allegheny Mountains. Mr. Chairman, that was a great day in American history, for then and there we began to be one people; and from that day down to the present, amid many trials, many discords, many vicissitudes, many perplexities, and many dangers, have continued to be one people. And hence it is I call this great war the first war of expansion ever entered on by the American people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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