 | James Wickes Taylor - Indians of North America - 1854 - 602 pages
...voyages along the northern coast of North America, sailed up the River St. Lawrence as far as Montreal, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. On the 17th of June, 1673, Father Marquette and M. Joliet reached the Mississippi by the channels... | |
 | William Allen - History - 1857 - 930 pages
...Bellisle. In this voyage he visited the greater part of the coast which surrounds the gulf of St. Lawrence, and took possession of the country in the name of the king ; he discovered a bay, which he called Baye des Chaleurs, on account of the sultry weather which he... | |
 | Compendium - 1858 - 174 pages
...adventurers, subdued this unwarlike people; put their king, Montezuma, in chains ; murdered his successor, and took possession of the country, in the name of the king of Spain. 699. Peru was next invaded, AD 1527, by the Spaniards, under Pizarro, and Almagro, on the pretext... | |
 | Compendium - 1858 - 584 pages
...adventurers, subdued this un warlike people; put their king, Montezuma, in chains ; murdered his successor, and took possession of the country, in the name of the king of Spain. 699. Peru was next invaded, AD 1527, by the Spaniards, under Pizarro, and Almagro, on the pretext... | |
 | Austin Jacobs Coolidge, John Brainard Mansfield - Maine - 1859 - 1110 pages
...the opening of the spring, he ranged the coast westerly to the Kennebec, where he erected a cross, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France. Thence he proceeded to Cape Cod. Some of the places he passed appeared suitable for settlement,... | |
 | Henry James Morgan - Canada - 1862 - 808 pages
...Belleisle. In this voyage he visited the greater part of the coast which surrounds the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and took possession of the country in the name of the king ; he discovered a bay, which he called Baie des Chaleurs, on account of the sultry weather which he... | |
 | Joseph M. Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 462 pages
...for supplies, returned to Fort Grève Cœur. Ile then descended the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France, in honor of whom he gave it the name of Louisiana. On his return northward, he left some of... | |
 | George Howe - Presbyterian Church - 1870 - 726 pages
...giving it the name of May River on this account. Here he set up a pillar, engraved with the king's arms, and took possession of the country in the name of the king. " The simple natives having beheld the religious worship connected with this ceremony, crowned the... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 pages
...divided into 48-parishes,. HISTORY. In 1691 La Salle discovered the rnouth of the Mississippi River, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. In 1699 Iberville attempted to form a settlement along the lower Mississippi, but his attempt... | |
 | James D. McCabe - United States - 1871 - 1172 pages
...divided into 48 parishes. HISTORY. In 1691 La Salle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. In 1699 Iberville attempted to form a settlement along the lower Mississippi, but his attempt... | |
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Brazil (1500), and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. 
