Appendiculae Historicae: Or, Shreds of History Hung on a Hornauthor: and sold, 1891 - 216 páginas "It [the powder horn] bears upon the yellow surface, a map, cut with the point of a knife, embracing ... the greater part of the modern state of New York, with the addition of a small portion of the Dominion of Canada containing Montreal ... The horn is not dated. There is however internal evidence that it is not earlier than 1750 nor later than 1783 ... The following notes ... are intended to show, first, which were the European nations who claimed the ground shown on the map, and why; secondly, how England and France came into collision in that region; thirdly, where and how they fought, and with what results ... "--Page 2. |
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... across " La Mer Tenebreuse . " He said , " The Lord has sensibly opened my mind in order " that I may sail from here to the Indies C 2 Discovery and Exploration . 11 for Cape Breton read Prince Edward for below read above.
... across " La Mer Tenebreuse . " He said , " The Lord has sensibly opened my mind in order " that I may sail from here to the Indies C 2 Discovery and Exploration . 11 for Cape Breton read Prince Edward for below read above.
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... lord of Brion , to induce him to renew his transatlantic enterprise . Under his auspices , Jacques Cartier , of S. Malo , still seeking , not a new continent , but India or Cathay , sailed on the 20th April , 1534 , and went up the Gulf ...
... lord of Brion , to induce him to renew his transatlantic enterprise . Under his auspices , Jacques Cartier , of S. Malo , still seeking , not a new continent , but India or Cathay , sailed on the 20th April , 1534 , and went up the Gulf ...
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... Lord of Norumbega , Viceroy and " Lieutenant - General in Canada , Hochelaga , Saguenay , Newfoundland , Belle " Isle , Carpunt , Labrador , the Great Bay , and Baccalaos , " and Cartier was made his Captain - General . The king ...
... Lord of Norumbega , Viceroy and " Lieutenant - General in Canada , Hochelaga , Saguenay , Newfoundland , Belle " Isle , Carpunt , Labrador , the Great Bay , and Baccalaos , " and Cartier was made his Captain - General . The king ...
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... Lord Arundel of Wardour sent George Waymouth , who explored the coast of Maine , and on his return succeeded in interesting Sir Ferdinand Gorges in the new field for money making . The error of supposing America to be the eastern parts ...
... Lord Arundel of Wardour sent George Waymouth , who explored the coast of Maine , and on his return succeeded in interesting Sir Ferdinand Gorges in the new field for money making . The error of supposing America to be the eastern parts ...
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... Lord Baltimore , to found an English Roman Catholic Colony , Maryland was separated from Virginia under the second Lord Baltimore . E In 1630 the Valley of the Connecticut was granted to Settlement and Colonization . 25.
... Lord Baltimore , to found an English Roman Catholic Colony , Maryland was separated from Virginia under the second Lord Baltimore . E In 1630 the Valley of the Connecticut was granted to Settlement and Colonization . 25.
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Página 150 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of His Britannic Majesty and those of His Most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the River Mississippi, from its source to the River Iberville.
Página 151 - Grenada, and the Grenadines, with the same stipulations in favour of the inhabitants of this colony, inserted in the IVth article for those of Canada : and the partition of the islands called neutral, is agreed and fixed, so that those of St. Vincent, Dominico, and Tobago, shall remain in full right to Great Britain, and that of St.
Página 166 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Página 149 - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Página 150 - Lawrence : and his Britannic Majesty consents to leave to the subjects of the Most Christian King the liberty of fishing in the gulph of St. Lawrence, on condition that the subjects of France do not exercise the said fishery but at the distance of three leagues from all the coasts...
Página 149 - King cedes and makes over the whole to the said King, and to the crown of Great Britain, and that in the most ample manner and form, without restriction, and without any liberty to depart from the said cession and guaranty, under any pretence, or to disturb Great Britain in the possessions above mentioned.
Página 149 - Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholick religion to the inhabitants of Canada: he will, in consequence, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Página 84 - I know, require the most vigorous measures ; but then the courage of a handful of brave men should be exerted only where there is some hope of a favorable event.
Página 153 - Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the territory of Spain in that part of the world...
Página 155 - ... whatsoever, except that of debts, or of criminal prosecutions: the term, limited for this emigration, being fixed to the space of eighteen months, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. It is moreover stipulated, that his Catholick Notes and References. 153 Majesty shall have power to cause all the effects, that may belong to him, to be brought away, whether it be artillery or other things.