A Popular History of the United States of America: From the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day : Embracing an Account of the Aborigines, the Norsemen in the New World, the Discoveries by the Spaniards, English, and French, the Planting of Settlements, the Growth of the Colonies, the Struggle for Liberty in the Revolution, the Establishment of the Union, the Development of the Nation, the Civil War, and the Centennial of IndependenceJones Bros. & Company, 1877 - 688 страница |
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... became ambitious to plant a col- ony . Kings and queens grew anxious to confer their names on the towns and commonwealths of the New World . Thus arose a third pe- riod - the Period of Colonial History . ( xxxvii ) 5. Then the colonies ...
... became ambitious to plant a col- ony . Kings and queens grew anxious to confer their names on the towns and commonwealths of the New World . Thus arose a third pe- riod - the Period of Colonial History . ( xxxvii ) 5. Then the colonies ...
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... crossed the Atlantic by voyaging from is- land to island , seems altogether improbable . That the Kamtchatkans , coming by way of Behring's Strait , reached the frozen North - west and became the progenitors of the Red men , has no ( 41 )
... crossed the Atlantic by voyaging from is- land to island , seems altogether improbable . That the Kamtchatkans , coming by way of Behring's Strait , reached the frozen North - west and became the progenitors of the Red men , has no ( 41 )
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... became evident that the Spaniards must ultimately be overwhelmed and destroyed . To save himself from his peril , Cortez adopted a second shame- less expedient , more wicked than the first . Montezuma was compelled to go upon the top of ...
... became evident that the Spaniards must ultimately be overwhelmed and destroyed . To save himself from his peril , Cortez adopted a second shame- less expedient , more wicked than the first . Montezuma was compelled to go upon the top of ...
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... became a prey to melancholy . No more dazzling visions of Peru and Mexico flitted before his imagination . A malignant fever seized upon his emaciated frame , and then death . The priests chanted a requiem , and in the middle of the ...
... became a prey to melancholy . No more dazzling visions of Peru and Mexico flitted before his imagination . A malignant fever seized upon his emaciated frame , and then death . The priests chanted a requiem , and in the middle of the ...
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... became a terror to the Spanish vessels in those waters . When he had thus sufficiently en- riched himself by a process not very different from piracy , he formed the daring project of tracing up the western coast of North America until ...
... became a terror to the Spanish vessels in those waters . When he had thus sufficiently en- riched himself by a process not very different from piracy , he formed the daring project of tracing up the western coast of North America until ...
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