The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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... settled the northeastern half of Eng- land in the ninth century . In the next century they established themselves in North- western France , which district was called from them Normandy ( the country of the Normans , or Northmen ) . In ...
... settled the northeastern half of Eng- land in the ninth century . In the next century they established themselves in North- western France , which district was called from them Normandy ( the country of the Normans , or Northmen ) . In ...
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... settlement made in the new land . In the course of the next hundred years the North- men pushed their light barks farther and farther west , until at last they reached the bleak shores of Greenland . There , also , they established a ...
... settlement made in the new land . In the course of the next hundred years the North- men pushed their light barks farther and farther west , until at last they reached the bleak shores of Greenland . There , also , they established a ...
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... Settlement . - The king of Spain had heard of the new settlement , and resolved to break it up . Pedro Menendez , an officer of the royal navy , was commissioned to drive out the intruders from territory which the Spanish monarch ...
... Settlement . - The king of Spain had heard of the new settlement , and resolved to break it up . Pedro Menendez , an officer of the royal navy , was commissioned to drive out the intruders from territory which the Spanish monarch ...
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... settle the eastern coast of America . That charter made Raleigh governor , with full power to enact laws for any ... settling . Most of the expeditions , as we have seen , had for their object to find a way through or round the continent ...
... settle the eastern coast of America . That charter made Raleigh governor , with full power to enact laws for any ... settling . Most of the expeditions , as we have seen , had for their object to find a way through or round the continent ...
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... settlement . 2 The potato , by which is meant the common not the sweet potato , was not cul- tivated by the Indians , and it is supposed that the Spaniards may have brought it to Virginia from some other part of the continent . The ...
... settlement . 2 The potato , by which is meant the common not the sweet potato , was not cul- tivated by the Indians , and it is supposed that the Spaniards may have brought it to Virginia from some other part of the continent . The ...
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