History of the Discovery of America: Of the Landing of Our Forefathers at Plymouth, and of Their Most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians in New-Englannd [!] from Their First Landing in 1620, Until the Final Subjugation of the Natives in 1679. To which is Annexed the Particulars of Almost Every Important Engagement with the Savages at the Westward to the Pesent Day. Including the Defeat of Generals Braddock, Harmer and St. Clair, by the Indians at the Westward; the Creek and Seminole War, &c |
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... attempt . Christopher Columbus , who was destined to the high honour of revealing a new hemisphere to Euro- peans , was by birth a Genoese , who had been early trained to a sea - faring life , and having acquired every branch of ...
... attempt . Christopher Columbus , who was destined to the high honour of revealing a new hemisphere to Euro- peans , was by birth a Genoese , who had been early trained to a sea - faring life , and having acquired every branch of ...
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... attempt great designs ; but the war being at length terminated , the powerful mind of Isabella broke through all obstacles ; she declared herself the patroness of Columbus , whilst her husband Ferdi- nand , declining to partake as an ...
... attempt great designs ; but the war being at length terminated , the powerful mind of Isabella broke through all obstacles ; she declared herself the patroness of Columbus , whilst her husband Ferdi- nand , declining to partake as an ...
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... attempting resis- tance , they fled with all the speed which terror could excite . Numbers were slain , and more made prison- ers , who were immediately consigned to slavery . The character of Columbus stands very high in the estimation ...
... attempting resis- tance , they fled with all the speed which terror could excite . Numbers were slain , and more made prison- ers , who were immediately consigned to slavery . The character of Columbus stands very high in the estimation ...
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... attempts were made to explore the country for a century after its discovery . Sir Francis Drake , who traversed the ... attempt ed to settle a colony . - At that time colonization made no part of the sys- tem of government , so that ...
... attempts were made to explore the country for a century after its discovery . Sir Francis Drake , who traversed the ... attempt ed to settle a colony . - At that time colonization made no part of the sys- tem of government , so that ...
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... attempting once more to seek a country better adapted to their pious purposes , and such as would promise a more fruitful abode to their offspring . To some the unexplored parts of America was proposed , and after a day or two set apart ...
... attempting once more to seek a country better adapted to their pious purposes , and such as would promise a more fruitful abode to their offspring . To some the unexplored parts of America was proposed , and after a day or two set apart ...
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