An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... claimed the land for Spain . He named the island San Salvador , or Holy Saviour . It was one of the Bahamas , no one knows which one , but many think that it was the one now The return to Spain known as Watling's Island . The COLUMBUS ...
... claimed the land for Spain . He named the island San Salvador , or Holy Saviour . It was one of the Bahamas , no one knows which one , but many think that it was the one now The return to Spain known as Watling's Island . The COLUMBUS ...
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... claimed the land for the sovereign in . whose service he had sailed . France began to feel that it was interested in time for her to have a share in these new countries , for even if France is the New World Jacques Cartier there were no ...
... claimed the land for the sovereign in . whose service he had sailed . France began to feel that it was interested in time for her to have a share in these new countries , for even if France is the New World Jacques Cartier there were no ...
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Eva March Tappan. claim in America he claimed the land for his king and set up a great wooden cross . 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 ...
Eva March Tappan. claim in America he claimed the land for his king and set up a great wooden cross . 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 ...
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... claimed the country about the Saint Lawrence , the Eng- lish claimed all between Maine and Florida , and the Spanish claimed Flor- ida , Mexico , the West In- dies , and South America . There were no bounda- ries between these terri ...
... claimed the country about the Saint Lawrence , the Eng- lish claimed all between Maine and Florida , and the Spanish claimed Flor- ida , Mexico , the West In- dies , and South America . There were no bounda- ries between these terri ...
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... claimed this vast area of land because of the discoveries of the Cabots . Elizabeth said that Spanish claims were nothing where Spain had no settlements , and as for any rights that the Indians might of them at all . In 1585 the colony ...
... claimed this vast area of land because of the discoveries of the Cabots . Elizabeth said that Spanish claims were nothing where Spain had no settlements , and as for any rights that the Indians might of them at all . In 1585 the colony ...
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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...