The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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... France , which district was called from them Normandy ( the country of the Normans , or Northmen ) . In 1066 the Normans crossed the Channel and conquered England . Hence many English , since the ninth century , and their descendants in ...
... France , which district was called from them Normandy ( the country of the Normans , or Northmen ) . In 1066 the Normans crossed the Channel and conquered England . Hence many English , since the ninth century , and their descendants in ...
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... San Domingo . After the cession of that island to France by the Spanish the remains of Colum- bus were exhumed ( as was then supposed ) , carried to Havana , Cuba , and there touching letter1 to the king and queen , asking for.
... San Domingo . After the cession of that island to France by the Spanish the remains of Colum- bus were exhumed ( as was then supposed ) , carried to Havana , Cuba , and there touching letter1 to the king and queen , asking for.
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... France . He had read Vespucci's accounts of his voyages and was particularly interested in them.5 Rouen Strasburg Ste Map showing the village of St. Dié , Eastern France . In the year 1507 he printed a little book in Latin on the ...
... France . He had read Vespucci's accounts of his voyages and was particularly interested in them.5 Rouen Strasburg Ste Map showing the village of St. Dié , Eastern France . In the year 1507 he printed a little book in Latin on the ...
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... France had obtained no part of the new world . But the king of that country did not intend to let the other powers of Europe get it all . The Pope had , as we have seen , 5 granted the new lands to rival nations ; but that had no effect ...
... France had obtained no part of the new world . But the king of that country did not intend to let the other powers of Europe get it all . The Pope had , as we have seen , 5 granted the new lands to rival nations ; but that had no effect ...
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... France accomplished anything.in this way before 1535. That year Cartier , a French navigator , discovered a great river in the northern part of America , to which he gave the name of St. Lawrence . Ascending the stream , he came to an ...
... France accomplished anything.in this way before 1535. That year Cartier , a French navigator , discovered a great river in the northern part of America , to which he gave the name of St. Lawrence . Ascending the stream , he came to an ...
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