The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn, 1891 - 359 pages |
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... England . The energy and enterprise for which these men of the north had once been famous had in great measure died out . They no longer engaged in daring adventures . 1 There is a strong probability that Columbus went to Iceland in ...
... England . The energy and enterprise for which these men of the north had once been famous had in great measure died out . They no longer engaged in daring adventures . 1 There is a strong probability that Columbus went to Iceland in ...
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... England . Influenced by what Columbus had achieved , and encouraged by Henry VII . , king of England , Cabot set sail westward in the spring of 1497. His object was to find a northern passage to the Indies and China , in order that he ...
... England . Influenced by what Columbus had achieved , and encouraged by Henry VII . , king of England , Cabot set sail westward in the spring of 1497. His object was to find a northern passage to the Indies and China , in order that he ...
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... England . Raleigh was one of the few men of that day who believed that the northern part of the new world was worth settling . Most of the expeditions , as we have seen , had for their object to find a way through or round the continent ...
... England . Raleigh was one of the few men of that day who believed that the northern part of the new world was worth 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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... England . Still the ex- periment had not been an utter failure , for they carried back a peculiar kind of root . When boiled or baked , the English found it excellent . Thus the Potato 2 became an article of food in the British Islands ...
... England . Still the ex- periment had not been an utter failure , for they carried back a peculiar kind of root . When boiled or baked , the English found it excellent . Thus the Potato 2 became an article of food in the British Islands ...
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... England to get further help for the colony , leaving his daughter and his granddaughter , little Vir- ginia Dare , to await his return . That was the last he ever saw of them . Circumstances prevented his return for three years . When ...
... England to get further help for the colony , leaving his daughter and his granddaughter , little Vir- ginia Dare , to await his return . That was the last he ever saw of them . Circumstances prevented his return for three years . When ...
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