"Stockton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... insured against attack. Not one drop of water would the town receive, and what that meant could be best explained to the Mayor by his wife. And thus, in spite of their often ridiculously small numbers, the Japanese troops were safe from surprise, for the awful punishment meted out to the town of Stockton, where a bold and quickly organized band of citizens destroyed the Japanese garrison, consisting only of a single company, was not likely to be disregarded. The entire population of the Pacific Coast was forced to submit quietly, though ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
... of the United States were the first to follow the example of England, after the practicability of steam locomotion had been proved on the Stockton and Darlington, and Liverpool and Manchester Railways. The first sod of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway was cut on the 4th of July, 1828, and the line was completed and opened for traffic in the following ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles
... ex-Governor of the State, was then elected. In the Ohio Legislature, an election was finally reached on the 15th of March, Benjamin F. Wade, the Whig candidate, receiving a majority of three. The New Jersey Legislature has chosen Commodore Robert F. Stockton, on the 27th ballot, by a majority of one, three of the members being absent. Commodore Stockton resigned his place in the ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... 22. Operatic debut of Carlotta Patti as Amina in "La Sonnambula," supported by Miss Stockton, Sbriglia and Susini, in ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee
... Santa Fe (p. 330). After taking the city without opposition, he declared the whole of New Mexico to be the property of the United States, and then started to seize California. On arriving there, he found the conquest completed by the combined forces of Stockton and Fremont. ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
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