The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1895 - 365 pages |
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... Territory , 1787 ( colored ) . XIII . Louisiana Territory ( colored ) . . . . XIV . The Period of the Civil War ( colored ) PAGE 126 154 169 180 182 184 187 204 292 XV . Territorial Growth of the United States from 1783 to the Present ...
... Territory , 1787 ( colored ) . XIII . Louisiana Territory ( colored ) . . . . XIV . The Period of the Civil War ( colored ) PAGE 126 154 169 180 182 184 187 204 292 XV . Territorial Growth of the United States from 1783 to the Present ...
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... territory for so small an outlay ; for on that voyage of Cabot's the English based their claim to this country . Nearly three hundred years later , Edmund Burke , the eminent British statesman , said in Parliament : " We derive our ...
... territory for so small an outlay ; for on that voyage of Cabot's the English based their claim to this country . Nearly three hundred years later , Edmund Burke , the eminent British statesman , said in Parliament : " We derive our ...
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... territory which the Spanish monarch claimed by right , first , of the discovery of America by Columbus , 3 and next , of that of Florida by De Leon . * Menendez started with his fleet in the summer of 1565 , and found the French at the ...
... territory which the Spanish monarch claimed by right , first , of the discovery of America by Columbus , 3 and next , of that of Florida by De Leon . * Menendez started with his fleet in the summer of 1565 , and found the French at the ...
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... territory for six hundred miles in every direction round his 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 ...
... territory for six hundred miles in every direction round his 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 ...
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... territory now embraced in the United States were a few hundred Spaniards in St. Augustine , Florida , and perhaps a few hundred more in Santa Fé , 1 New Mexico , the second oldest town . Over the rest of the country , embracing more ...
... territory now embraced in the United States were a few hundred Spaniards in St. Augustine , Florida , and perhaps a few hundred more in Santa Fé , 1 New Mexico , the second oldest town . Over the rest of the country , embracing more ...
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