The English demanded that they swear an oath of allegiance to George I. The Acadians stalled, and then refused. A delegation from Beaubassin explained why to the governor of Annapolis Royal (Port ...

The first victims of the move to drive out the French were not even in Canada – but a peaceful population of Acadians in Nova Scotia who refused to swear an oath to the English King. In the late ...

Toronto — A small Canadian town's five recently elected councilors refused to swear an oath of allegiance to Britain's King ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

In its aftermath, Griswold's account of Washington prayerfully adding "so help me God" to the presidential oath became part of America's Christian creation myth. The Pledge of Allegiance (United ...

The 50 new U.S. citizens came from 20 countries and took the Oath of Allegiance and waved their U.S. flags in front of friends and family in the Sunnylands garden. For many new citizens ...

However, when questioned as to whether Mr. Kennedy would take an oath of allegiance, his response was that this would be ‘pushing things too far.’ The case ended with the Resident Magistrate ...