"James river" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been done, Captain Newport sailed up the James River in search of the passage to the South Sea, and my master set about ...
— Richard of Jamestown - A Story of the Virginia Colony • James Otis
... The campaign lasted from March to July, and included, besides various other engagements, the important battles of Fair Oaks, and of Malvern Hill (July 1). At the end of June the Union army was driven back to Harrison's Landing on the James River. Meantime the Confederate general, Jackson, in the valley of the Shenandoah, repulsed Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, and joined General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate forces, who now pressed forward towards Washington. Pope was defeated at Manassas (Aug. 29, ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher
... republic to talk of peace or of truce Accepting a new tyrant in place of the one so long ago deposed As if they were free will not make them free As neat a deception by telling the truth Cargo of imaginary gold dust was exported from the James River Delay often fights better than an army against a foreign invader Diplomacy of Spain and Rome—meant simply dissimulation Draw a profit out of the necessities of this state England hated the Netherlands Friendly advice still more intolerable Haereticis non servanda fides He who ...
— Quotations From John Lothrop Motley • David Widger
... the royal grant were two hundred miles north, and the same distance south, of the mouth of the James River, and east and ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various
... local antiquary, of Covington, a beautiful little village nestling in a high mountain valley near the head of James River, in Alleghany County, Virginia, gathered from the aged pioneers still lingering on the shores of time, the story of the primitive settlement and border wars of the Virginia Valley. Hugh Paul Taylor, for such was his name, was the precursor, ...
— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers
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