The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1895 - 365 pages |
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Page 32
... town in the United States ( 1565 ) may be said to have been laid in blood . 25. Revenge by De Gourgues.2 - The king of France treated the affair with indifference ; but a French Catholic named De Gourgues vowed vengeance on the ...
... town in the United States ( 1565 ) may be said to have been laid in blood . 25. Revenge by De Gourgues.2 - The king of France treated the affair with indifference ; but a French Catholic named De Gourgues vowed vengeance on the ...
Page 38
... town . Over the rest of the country , embracing more than three millions of square miles , the Indians ruled supreme . France had tried to get a foothold on the Atlantic coast and had failed ; Eng- land had tried and failed likewise ...
... town . Over the rest of the country , embracing more than three millions of square miles , the Indians ruled supreme . France had tried to get a foothold on the Atlantic coast and had failed ; Eng- land had tried and failed likewise ...
Page 48
... town in the United States . On the other hand , we have seen that the English expeditions of Frobisher and Gilbert , with Raleigh's project of a Virginia colony , all failed , and that the country was left with no white occupants but ...
... town in the United States . On the other hand , we have seen that the English expeditions of Frobisher and Gilbert , with Raleigh's project of a Virginia colony , all failed , and that the country was left with no white occupants but ...
Page 52
... town.1 They found a country abounding in every natural advantage , and well deserving that name of the " Good Land , " which the Indians are said to have given it . But they found themselves destitute of those rights and privileges ...
... town.1 They found a country abounding in every natural advantage , and well deserving that name of the " Good Land , " which the Indians are said to have given it . But they found themselves destitute of those rights and privileges ...
Page 57
... towns was that neither schools nor printing presses came into existence until very late , and the mass of the people had to get their education from nature , not from books or newspapers . Another result of the want of towns was that ...
... towns was that neither schools nor printing presses came into existence until very late , and the mass of the people had to get their education from nature , not from books or newspapers . Another result of the want of towns was that ...
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