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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... nearly a century before Columbus visited Iceland in search of nautical information , with a view to the voyage which he made in 1492 . The supposed discovery of Huitramannaland by Irishmen before A.D. 1000 , rests upon very slender ...
... nearly a century before Columbus visited Iceland in search of nautical information , with a view to the voyage which he made in 1492 . The supposed discovery of Huitramannaland by Irishmen before A.D. 1000 , rests upon very slender ...
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... nearly fourteen months before Columbus saw the coast of Paria . Vespucci still has his adherents , but the only question seems to be whether he lied by design or by mistake . A letter written by Columbus in 1505 , speaks in high terms ...
... nearly fourteen months before Columbus saw the coast of Paria . Vespucci still has his adherents , but the only question seems to be whether he lied by design or by mistake . A letter written by Columbus in 1505 , speaks in high terms ...
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... nearly round the circle of chiefs , when one , bolder and more polite than the rest , accepted and drank the liquor . His companions thought his drunken sleep . death , but when he awoke and described the happy effects he had ...
... nearly round the circle of chiefs , when one , bolder and more polite than the rest , accepted and drank the liquor . His companions thought his drunken sleep . death , but when he awoke and described the happy effects he had ...
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... nearly 180,000 . It was France's policy to delay the struggle and gain time , England's to precipitate it . In January , 1755 , Braddock embarked for America with two regiments , the 44th and 48th . Immediately this was known in France ...
... nearly 180,000 . It was France's policy to delay the struggle and gain time , England's to precipitate it . In January , 1755 , Braddock embarked for America with two regiments , the 44th and 48th . Immediately this was known in France ...
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... nearly 2,000 men . His design was to go to Oswego , thence to Niagara , which he was to take , and there await the victorious Braddock . His forces mustered at Albany ; at Schenectady he embarked with about two hundred of his men , and ...
... nearly 2,000 men . His design was to go to Oswego , thence to Niagara , which he was to take , and there await the victorious Braddock . His forces mustered at Albany ; at Schenectady he embarked with about two hundred of his men , and ...
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Acadia afterwards Albany Amherst attack Battery boats Braddock Britannick British built Cabot camp Canada Cape carried Cartier Christian coast Colonel colonies Columbus command continent Crown Point Dieskau discovery Duquesne Dutch England English erected expedition explored fleet force Fort Crown Point Fort Duquesne Fort Edward Fort Frontenac Fort William Henry forts France French Frontenac garrison Governor guns Hochelaga Horn Map Hudson Hurons Indians inhabitants Iroquois island Jesuits John Johnson June killed King Lake Champlain Lake George Lake Ontario land Lawrence Lévis London Lord Louisbourg Majesty miles Mohawk Montcalm Montreal nations natives navigator Newfoundland Niagara North America Oneida Oswego peace Portugal possession present treaty prisoners province Quebec reached River Roberval sailed scalp sent settlements ships Shirley side Spain success surrendered territory Ticonderoga took town trade troops Vaudreuil Venango Vespucci Virginia voyage Washington William Henry Wolfe Wood Creek XVIth century York
Pasajes populares
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.