The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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Page 14
... Mexico of the southeast , planting there a Spanish population , Spanish laws , and the Span- ish language . Had that happened , and there is no reason to think it would not , then despotic Spain would have got firm control of a part of ...
... Mexico of the southeast , planting there a Spanish population , Spanish laws , and the Span- ish language . Had that happened , and there is no reason to think it would not , then despotic Spain would have got firm control of a part of ...
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... Mexico and Peru , they became reconciled in a measure to their disappoint- ment . Still , for more than a hundred years after Columbus , most of the explorers spent their efforts not so much in seeking to find out what was in the new ...
... Mexico and Peru , they became reconciled in a measure to their disappoint- ment . Still , for more than a hundred years after Columbus , most of the explorers spent their efforts not so much in seeking to find out what was in the new ...
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... Mexico , conquered that country , and thus established the power of Spain on the Pacific slope of the North American continent . - 20. French Explorations ; Montreal . Up to this time France had obtained no part of the new world . But ...
... Mexico , conquered that country , and thus established the power of Spain on the Pacific slope of the North American continent . - 20. French Explorations ; Montreal . Up to this time France had obtained no part of the new world . But ...
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... Mexico , toward the west . After cruising in this way for more than five weeks , Cabeza De Vaca , an officer of the expedition , discovered one of the mouths of the Mississippi . Narvaez , * the commander of the little fleet , soon ...
... Mexico , toward the west . After cruising in this way for more than five weeks , Cabeza De Vaca , an officer of the expedition , discovered one of the mouths of the Mississippi . Narvaez , * the commander of the little fleet , soon ...
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... Mexico , set out to find them ( 1540 ) . He discovered the Great Cañon of the Colorado and some of the Indian stone2 cities of New Mexico - possibly he reached what is now Kansas . Later the Spaniards made permanent set- tlements in the ...
... Mexico , set out to find them ( 1540 ) . He discovered the Great Cañon of the Colorado and some of the Indian stone2 cities of New Mexico - possibly he reached what is now Kansas . Later the Spaniards made permanent set- tlements in the ...
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