An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... Century Company , for permission to reproduce a number of illus- trations in this book . EVA MARCH TAPPAN . WORCESTER , MASSACHUSETTS , April , 1902 . The cover designs represent : on the front cover , Columbus's flagship bearing on its ...
... Century Company , for permission to reproduce a number of illus- trations in this book . EVA MARCH TAPPAN . WORCESTER , MASSACHUSETTS , April , 1902 . The cover designs represent : on the front cover , Columbus's flagship bearing on its ...
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... WAR 208 · XXII . THE LATTER YEARS OF THE CENTURY XXIII . THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER XXIV . OUR COUNTRY TO - DAY 229 241 251 · INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY IMPORTANT DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1492 Columbus discovers America .
... WAR 208 · XXII . THE LATTER YEARS OF THE CENTURY XXIII . THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER XXIV . OUR COUNTRY TO - DAY 229 241 251 · INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY IMPORTANT DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1492 Columbus discovers America .
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... enough to burn The Sea of Darkness Trade with Asia the ship . The waves are as. DANGERS OF THE SEA OF DARKNESS ( From a sixteenth century illustration ) COLUMBUS'S ARMOR ( Now in Madrid ). COLUMBUS SHOWS THE WAY TO AMERICA.
... enough to burn The Sea of Darkness Trade with Asia the ship . The waves are as. DANGERS OF THE SEA OF DARKNESS ( From a sixteenth century illustration ) COLUMBUS'S ARMOR ( Now in Madrid ). COLUMBUS SHOWS THE WAY TO AMERICA.
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... the Spanish am- bassador told him there would be ENGLISH SHIP OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY North America discovered CABOT DESCRIBING HIS VOYAGE TO THE ENGLISH. EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS 13 THE EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS.
... the Spanish am- bassador told him there would be ENGLISH SHIP OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY North America discovered CABOT DESCRIBING HIS VOYAGE TO THE ENGLISH. EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS 13 THE EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS.
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... found until the middle of the nineteenth century , and that even then it would prove to be so far north as to have little practical value ! In all these early voyages whoever landed on an unknown. EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS 19.
... found until the middle of the nineteenth century , and that even then it would prove to be so far north as to have little practical value ! In all these early voyages whoever landed on an unknown. EARLY FOLLOWERS OF COLUMBUS 19.
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