 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 396 pages
...Lower Mississippi. Passing by the mouth of the river without discovering it, they landed in Texas, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France. Disaster followed disaster. La Salle died, and the colonists were exterminated by the Indians.... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1872 - 1042 pages
...Entering the Straits of Belle Isle, he visited the greater part of the coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and took possession of the country in the name of the king. A bay which he discovered, was, on account of the sultry weather experienced in it, named by him tie... | |
 | Elizabeth Peake - Emperors - 1874 - 600 pages
...Jacques Cartier, a seaman of Bretagne, in 1534 explored the Gulf and the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. Francisco Pizarro discovered Peru in 1526. In 1528 he returned to Spain, carrying with him... | |
 | James Cocke Southall - Archaeology - 1875 - 662 pages
...unknown country, in the tenth degree beyond the line. He was upon the coast of Brazil, where he landed, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Portugal.* It is impossible to ignore in this connection the testimony of Diodorus Remarkable pas-... | |
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Nuevitas and took possession of the country In the name of the King of Spain. 
