"Territorial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... expedition to Santiago, because it will reduce to impotence the naval power of Spain. The determination of the conflict will depend throughout upon the destruction of the Spanish sea power, and not upon territorial descents, although the latter may aggravate the situation." The American admiral from before Santiago, when urging the expedition of a land force to make the bay untenable, telegraphed, "The destruction of this squadron will end ...
— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan
... Ariz., Feb. 3, 1883. She was born June 22, 1863, at Petaluma, Cal., third daughter of Richmond C. Pearson and his wife, Mary Ayers. In 1884 he was elected Councilman at Large for Southern Arizona (the Upper House of the Territorial Legislature). While there, among other bills, he succeeded in having passed those abolishing the English Common Law Doctrine of Riparian Rights, now incorporated in the Constitution of Arizona, and establishing ...
— The Stephens Family - A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens • Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens
... the Sea Bride, by the Alabama, is stated to have been effected beyond the distance of three miles from the shore—which distance must be accepted as the limit of territorial jurisdiction, according to the present rule of international law upon that subject. It appears, however, that the prize, very soon after her capture, was brought within the distance of two miles from the shore; and as this is contrary ...
— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes
... differences within our immediate contemplation, of the tendency of which, even under the restraints of a federal constitution, we have had sufficient experience to enable us to form a judgment of what might be expected if those restraints were removed. Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin. This cause would exist among us in ...
— The Federalist Papers
... objection may be counterbalanced by the advantages resulting from associating together thus intimately the men from the same district, or county as we would call it; the celerity of mobilization, and, in truth, the very foundation of the German system, being based on this local or territorial scheme of recruiting. ...
— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 6 • P. H. Sheridan
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