An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... FRENCH EXPLORATIONS IN AMERICA XIV . THE STRUGGLE WITH THE FRENCH . 114 119 XV . THE TIMES BEFORE THE REVOLUTION XVI . THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE REVOLUTION XVII . THE LATTER PART OF THE REVOLUTION XVIII . THE YEARS OF WEAKNESS XIX ...
... FRENCH EXPLORATIONS IN AMERICA XIV . THE STRUGGLE WITH THE FRENCH . 114 119 XV . THE TIMES BEFORE THE REVOLUTION XVI . THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE REVOLUTION XVII . THE LATTER PART OF THE REVOLUTION XVIII . THE YEARS OF WEAKNESS XIX ...
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... French power in America . 1765 The Stamp Act . 1773 The Boston Tea - party . 1774 First Continental Congress . 1775 April 19. Battle of Lexington and beginning of the Revolution . 1775 June 17. Battle of Bunker Hill . 1776 July 4 ...
... French power in America . 1765 The Stamp Act . 1773 The Boston Tea - party . 1774 First Continental Congress . 1775 April 19. Battle of Lexington and beginning of the Revolution . 1775 June 17. Battle of Bunker Hill . 1776 July 4 ...
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... French King said : " Show me Father Adam's will that gives the earth to Spain and Portugal and shuts out France . " Spanish voyagers had gone to South America and Mexico , and from those countries gold was pouring into Spain ; but if ...
... French King said : " Show me Father Adam's will that gives the earth to Spain and Portugal and shuts out France . " Spanish voyagers had gone to South America and Mexico , and from those countries gold was pouring into Spain ; but if ...
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... French The natives had received him kindly , but when the cross was set up , the chief spoke as well as he could by signs and said : " This established is my country , not yours . I am its king , not you . " no difference to Cartier ...
... French The natives had received him kindly , but when the cross was set up , the chief spoke as well as he could by signs and said : " This established is my country , not yours . I am its king , not you . " no difference to Cartier ...
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... French had explored the Saint Lawrence . Both English and French had explored part of the eastern coast of North America . SUMMARY . Within fifty years after the voyage of Columbus : The Cabots visited the mainland of America ...
... French had explored the Saint Lawrence . Both English and French had explored part of the eastern coast of North America . SUMMARY . Within fifty years after the voyage of Columbus : The Cabots visited the mainland of America ...
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Page 248 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 142 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Page 222 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition ; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 43 - I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping-pans and their chamber-pots are pure gold, and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold. All the prisoners they take are fettered in gold. And for rubies and diamonds, they go forth on holidays and gather them by the sea-shore to hang on their children's coats and stick in their caps, as commonly as our children wear saffron gilt brooches and groats with holes in them.
Page 135 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...