[147] The British Orders in Council respecting the "right of search," to which the United States made objection, and had been given as their reason for war, had been repealed in England the day before war was declared.
[148] An ancestor of Lord Roberts of Kandahar and Pretoria.
[149] Kernighan ("The Khan"): "The Men of the Northern Zone."
[150] Out of a part of these the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905.
[151] See Appendix C—"Canadian War Medals."
[152] Henry Ward Beecher.
[153] Extract from Dictionary of Statistics, p. 541, "Abolition of Slavery."
[154] In 1780 there were 1,191,000 slaves in the United States, and as late as 1860 more than 4,000,000.
[155] 25th May, 1787, at Philadelphia.
[156] Emancipation was effected in New Jersey in 1804; New York, 1827.