 | Horace Elisha Scudder - United States - 1884 - 612 pages
...name. He entered a bay, wl1ich, on account of the heat, he named the Bay of Chaleur. There he landed and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. This ceremony consisted in setting up a cross and fastening upon it the king's coat-of-arms.... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1896 - 1282 pages
...Portugal, and in command of a fleet of thirteen ships, discovered Brazil in April, 1500. He planted a cross and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. This great discovery probably led that nation to expend its energies upon that country instead... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1884 - 572 pages
...name. He entered a bay, which, on account of the heat, he named the Bay of Chaleur. There he landed and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. This ceremony consisted in setting up a cross and fastening upon it the king's coat-of-arms.... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1885 - 498 pages
...Alvarez Cabrai reached the coast of Brazil farther to the south than the point touched by Pinzón, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. Towards the close of the year above named Koderigo de Bastidas explored the coast from Cape... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - America - 1890 - 560 pages
...and sweet song, and " people of the finest forms and kindest natures." They set up a stone column, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. A few days later they sailed northward to the South Carolina coast. After the bitter Civil... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1896 - 1274 pages
...Portugal, and in command of a fleet of thirteen ships, discovered Brazil in April, 1500. He planted a cross and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. This great discovery probably led that nation to expend its energies upon that country instead... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 684 pages
...General of Canada with a force of about 235 soldiers and Indians (see Scioto county) down the Ohio and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France, he visited Pickawillany on his return home. Their farthest point west on the Ohio was the mouth... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 610 pages
...General of Canada with a force of about 235 soldiers and Indians (see Scioto county) down the Ohio and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France, he visited Pickawillany on his return home. Their farthest point west on the Ohio was the mouth... | |
 | Edward John Payne - America - 1892 - 646 pages
...few leagues, if his observations were correct, to the north of the present city of Saint Augustine, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Castile. He then returned and surveyed the whole coast as far as the southernmost point of the peninsula,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Maine - 1892 - 622 pages
...continuing tbeir cruise, they cast anchor at the mouth of the Kennebec. Here De Monts raised a cross, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. He traversed Casco Bay, occasionally casting anchor at attractive spots along the silent shores,... | |
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Nuevitas and took possession of the country In the name of the King of Spain. 
