When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

A picket guard of about 350, mostly Hessians, were attacked by the Americans under Lafayette, and driven back to their camp, some twenty to thirty of them falling before the riflemen's fire.

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

The contents were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium.

How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, especially children, were encouraged to be polite??

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

At least 20 other Americans were reported to have been arrested in a mass political roundup.

From the luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, 50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz., and his son, Cody, 16, a high-school junior.

Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

In New York's Chinatown, the restaurants were known for having a " phantom " menu with food preferred by ethnic Chinese, but believed to be disliked by non-Chinese Americans.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

hooks points out that these white female reformers were more concerned with white morality than the conditions these morals caused black Americans.

The Soviets were threatened because the Americans might have been able to make a nuclear first strike possible.

The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live — right in his own neighborhood.

They were simply " Boston ", " Bostonians " or " the Bostons "; or the " Americans " or " Boston Americans " as in " American Leaguers ", Boston being a two-team city.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

* Quotation usage: Americans almost always place commas and periods inside adjacent quotation marks.

Cornell University professor Isaac Kramnick, on the other hand, argues that Americans have always been highly individualistic and therefore Lockean.

This is a direct connection with the fact that African Americans ’ rights were always changing, and society itself was in a temporal flux at the time he created this image.

Such people emphasize the American tradition of always returning governance back to the indigenous people, even allowing Native Americans to have sovereign nations within American borders, which are focused on decolonization, and insisting on a rejection of previous isolationist policies, do not constitute the embrace of imperialism.

The change to include continental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between Jack Nicklaus and the Earl of Derby, who was serving as the President of the Professional Golfers ' Association ; it was suggested by Nicklaus as a means to make the matches more competitive, since the Americans almost always won, often by lopsided margins.

Even though she was a captive, she was always joyful, so the Native Americans started calling her " Little-Ship-Under-Full-Sail.

Although most governments in the world are, as they always have been, autocracies of one kind or another, no idea hold greater sway in the mind of educated Americans than the belief that it is possible to democratize governments, anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances .... ( But ) decades, if not centuries, are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits.

Micheaux always depicts African Americans as being serious and reaching for higher education.

Pilot procurement for the swelling fleet would always be problematic, with the inadequate roster of Lao and Hmong pilots being filled out with Thai mercenary pilots, and a few Americans from Air America.

Although the Constitutional doctrine required equality, the facilities and social services offered to African-Americans were almost always of lower quality than those offered to white Americans ; for example, many African American schools received less public funding per student than nearby white schools.

They generally ( though not always ) felt the use of force would be too costly to Americans, and sought other means to take Native American lands.

The Japanese war plan had from the start always been to inflict such severe and painful losses upon the Americans that the American public would become war weary and demand a negotiated settlement.

Initially he was very critical of the U. S .- led invasion of Iraq, saying " we do not put confidence in the Americans, they have always acted against the interests of the Iraqi people " and urging Iraqis not to follow the US administration's dictates.

He is about to kill Archie, but Archie manages to distract Otto by pointing out that Americans are not always winners-as shown by their loss to North Vietnam in the Vietnam war.

The Native Americans had succeeded in driving the colonists back into their larger towns, but the Indians ' supplies, particularly in powder and lead, nearly always sufficient for only a season or so, were running out.

While the French had always made these supplies available, Amherst did not trust the Native Americans, particularly after the " Cherokee Rebellion " of 1761, in which Cherokee warriors took up arms against their former British allies.

( It was a rule among the Dutch that Native American land must always be purchased and never seized by force, but as the concept of land ownership was alien to the Americans, there was a great deal of cultural confusion attached to the transactions with the Dutch " payments " taken for gifts in keeping with Native custom.

He noted, " Americans who have always looked westward when reading about this period should read this book facing eastward.

Deer was not always abundant, due to the dry nature of the Achomawi's land, hence their unique way of hunting deer, compared to other Californian Natives Americans.

* " You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing — after they have tried everything else.

These are depicted as far superior to the heavy-handed tactics of the Americans, who are called " the Cousins " in Circus jargon, and whose entry into a mission always ensures that things will get a lot rougher.

It must always signify Americans pulling together for peace ," said Ruppe.

It must always signify Americans pulling together for peace.

Early on 24 June, the Americans climbed what locals have always called " the mountain " at St. David's, and proceeded along the Mountain Road leading to the Beaver Dams settlement.