The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn, 1891 - 359 pages |
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... hands of the two rival Italian ports of Venice and Genoa . They held such complete possession of this lucra- tive traffic that it was said that no one in Western Europe could season a dish of meat or spice a cup of wine , without adding ...
... hands of the two rival Italian ports of Venice and Genoa . They held such complete possession of this lucra- tive traffic that it was said that no one in Western Europe could season a dish of meat or spice a cup of wine , without adding ...
Page 16
... hand , bowed low before him . Yet the only printed account 2 which appeared describing his wonderful voyage was a copy of a letter which he had written to the king and queen . It was entitled : " A Letter of Christopher Columbus , ( to ...
... hand , bowed low before him . Yet the only printed account 2 which appeared describing his wonderful voyage was a copy of a letter which he had written to the king and queen . It was entitled : " A Letter of Christopher Columbus , ( to ...
Page 26
... hand , and bearing a banner in the other , he marched out knee - deep into the smooth sea , and took possession of it and of all lands bordering on it for the sovereigns of Spain . Waving his sword , he said , " I am ready to defend ...
... hand , and bearing a banner in the other , he marched out knee - deep into the smooth sea , and took possession of it and of all lands bordering on it for the sovereigns of Spain . Waving his sword , he said , " I am ready to defend ...
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... hands , and then sent him home to exhibit the useless , bleeding stumps to his family . For two years this march went on . During that time De Soto and his men travelled upwards of fifteen hundred miles through what are now the States ...
... hands , and then sent him home to exhibit the useless , bleeding stumps to his family . For two years this march went on . During that time De Soto and his men travelled upwards of fifteen hundred miles through what are now the States ...
Page 32
... hands of the others a hundred and forty - six in all were tied behind them ; then they were marched to St. Augustine , or its vicinity , and deliber- ately massacred . Thus the foundation of the oldest town in the United States ( 1565 ) ...
... hands of the others a hundred and forty - six in all were tied behind them ; then they were marched to St. Augustine , or its vicinity , and deliber- ately massacred . Thus the foundation of the oldest town in the United States ( 1565 ) ...
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