Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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General Buckner was a brigadier-general in the Confederate army and his last visit to Boston was as a prisoner of war...
...great woods brought about the conflict with the French, who claimed the region by right of La Salle's discoveries. They advanced down the Alleghany region, building forts as they came, till in 1753 the governor of Virginia sent George Washington to warn them against further aggression. In the war which followed the individual history of Virginia becomes merged with that of the other colonies with whom she became leagued in the struggle...
...experience of the last half-century and the light it throws upon the possible general resort to arbitration as a substitute for war...
...light which experience throws upon the resort to arbitration as a substitute for war...
...Fiske closed with a comparison of life in New England and in the Carolinas, saying that in his opinion with such differing conditions the Civil War was inevitable...