 | Karl Frederick Geiser - Democracy - 1918 - 112 pages
...1500, when a Portuguese navigator, Pedro Alvares Cabral, landed not far from the present city of Bahia and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. For a tune the Crown paid little attention to the new possession, but about the year 1530... | |
 | George Herbert Locke - Canada - 1919 - 170 pages
...the mouth of the Arkansas River. Landing there La Salle raised the banner of France, planted a cross, and took possession of the country in the name of the King. Thence down the river they went for three hundred miles to the Taensas Indians, who lived in large... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1921 - 518 pages
...the year Alvarez Cabrai reached the coast of Brazil farther south than the point touched by Pinzón, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. In 1513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien, and discovered the Pacific... | |
 | Eugene Clyde Brooks - South America - 1922 - 280 pages
...Columbus, the Portuguese commander, Pedro Alvarez Cabral, followed him by accident a year later (1500) and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Portugal. It was thus, accidentally, that Brazil became a province of Portugal rather than of Spain.... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1922 - 942 pages
...'Pasqua Florida,' he gave it the name of Florida from this circumstance. He landed on the 2d of April, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Castile. The warlike people of the coast of Cautio (a name given by the Indians to all the country... | |
 | Robert Adams Gibbs - Frontier and pioneer life - 1925 - 318 pages
...would take when walking across level country." Coronado had many interesting adventures during his trip and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Spain. The object of the expedition, which was to obtain gold and silver, was not accomplished, however,... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Europe - 1925 - 436 pages
...round the islands of New Zealand. In 1770 he sailed to Botany Bay, explored a great extent of coast, and took possession of the country in the name of the King. He made two more voyages before his murder at Hawaii in 1778, and outlined the coast of Australia,... | |
 | School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.) - Indians of North America - 1925 - 110 pages
...Florida and finally sighted land on April 1 2th, 1528. On Good Friday of that year Narvaez disembarked and took possession of the country in the name of the king. After exploring the surrounding territory, he decided, against the advice of Cabeza de Vaca, to send... | |
 | Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams - Education - 1922 - 908 pages
...Joliet descended it almost to its mouth, and in 1682 La Salle passed through it to the Gulf of Mexico and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. Counting as a part of it the longest branch of the drainage system, the Missouri, which far... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1889 - 512 pages
...Colbert, the place where La Salle had landed near the Mississippi, and the spot where he planted a cross, and took possession of the country in the name of the King, are mentioned.8 I base my opinion, thirdly, on a letter of Count Frontenac. In this letter, which was... | |
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Nuevitas and took possession of the country In the name of the King of Spain. 
