The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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... West , Wars with the Indians and with the French , Colonial Life ) , 1607 to 1763 . IV . The Revolution ; the Constitution , 1763 to 1789 .... V. The Union , National Development ( Presidents from Wash- ington to Buchanan , inclusive ) ...
... West , Wars with the Indians and with the French , Colonial Life ) , 1607 to 1763 . IV . The Revolution ; the Constitution , 1763 to 1789 .... V. The Union , National Development ( Presidents from Wash- ington to Buchanan , inclusive ) ...
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... west , until at last they reached the bleak shores of Greenland . There , also , they established a colony . But even that distant and dreary outpost was not to be the utmost limit of their wanderings . The coast of North America had ...
... west , until at last they reached the bleak shores of Greenland . There , also , they established a colony . But even that distant and dreary outpost was not to be the utmost limit of their wanderings . The coast of North America had ...
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... West . But Columbus thought that he could improve on the king of Portugal's project . He felt certain that there was a shorter and better way of reaching the Indies than the track Diaz had marked out . The plan of the Genoese sailor was ...
... West . But Columbus thought that he could improve on the king of Portugal's project . He felt certain that there was a shorter and better way of reaching the Indies than the track Diaz had marked out . The plan of the Genoese sailor was ...
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... west , by which course , unto the present time , we do not know for certain that any one hath passed . " 2 See chart of Columbus , page 12 , and compare also the chart of his course , page 13 . and mechanical means of success . He had ...
... west , by which course , unto the present time , we do not know for certain that any one hath passed . " 2 See chart of Columbus , page 12 , and compare also the chart of his course , page 13 . and mechanical means of success . He had ...
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... west of north.1 This astonished Columbus , and greatly alarmed the seamen . They began to think that they had now entered a region where the ordinary laws of nature were suspended , and that to persist in keeping on would be destruction ...
... west of north.1 This astonished Columbus , and greatly alarmed the seamen . They began to think that they had now entered a region where the ordinary laws of nature were suspended , and that to persist in keeping on would be destruction ...
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