An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... VIRGINIA , THE FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH COLONY VI . PLYMOUTH , THE FIRST COLONY IN NEW ENGLAND VII . THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY . ོ རུ་ ལྕཙ 13 24 34 42 52 61 CUT · VIII . MAINE , NEW HAMPSHIRE , RHODE ISLAND , AND CONNECTI- IX . EARLY ...
... VIRGINIA , THE FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH COLONY VI . PLYMOUTH , THE FIRST COLONY IN NEW ENGLAND VII . THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY . ོ རུ་ ལྕཙ 13 24 34 42 52 61 CUT · VIII . MAINE , NEW HAMPSHIRE , RHODE ISLAND , AND CONNECTI- IX . EARLY ...
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... Virginia , the first English colony in America , settled at James- town . 1608 Champlain founds Quebec . 1609 Hudson explores the Hudson River . 1614 New York first settled on Manhattan Island . 1617 New Jersey first settled at Bergen ...
... Virginia , the first English colony in America , settled at James- town . 1608 Champlain founds Quebec . 1609 Hudson explores the Hudson River . 1614 New York first settled on Manhattan Island . 1617 New Jersey first settled at Bergen ...
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... Virginia . — George Wythe , Richard Henry Lee , Thomas Jefferson , Ben- jamin Harrison , Thomas Nelson , Jr. , Francis Lightfoot Lee , Carter Braxton . North Carolina . William Hooper , Joseph Hewes , John Penn . South Carolina ...
... Virginia . — George Wythe , Richard Henry Lee , Thomas Jefferson , Ben- jamin Harrison , Thomas Nelson , Jr. , Francis Lightfoot Lee , Carter Braxton . North Carolina . William Hooper , Joseph Hewes , John Penn . South Carolina ...
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... Virginia in honor of her , their virgin queen . When she was asked to send out a colony , it was a different matter . No doubt it would be a good thing to have powerful settlements in America from which vessels could be sent out to ...
... Virginia in honor of her , their virgin queen . When she was asked to send out a colony , it was a different matter . No doubt it would be a good thing to have powerful settlements in America from which vessels could be sent out to ...
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... Virginia Dare . No one knows what became of this little American girl , for the governor had to return to England ; and when three years later he was able to go back to the colony , the little granddaughter and all the other colonists ...
... Virginia Dare . No one knows what became of this little American girl , for the governor had to return to England ; and when three years later he was able to go back to the colony , the little granddaughter and all the other colonists ...
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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...