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" Nuevitas and took possession of the country In the name of the King of Spain. "
Easy Lessons in Geography and History: Designed for the Use of the Younger ... - Page 70
by Joseph Allen - 1832 - 116 pages
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A hundred wonders of the world in nature and art, ed. by J. Small

John Small - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 646 pages
...within three days' journey of its mouth. La Salle, in 1682, descended the river to the Gulf of Mexico, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France. About the year 1699, Iberville built a fort upon the banks of the river; and in 1718 New Orleans...
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Dictionary of American Biography, Including Men of the Time: Containing ...

Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1876 - 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...
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Pizarro: His Adventures and Conquests

George Makepeace Towle - America - 1878 - 362 pages
...afterwards amused him with music and dancing. It was here that Pizarro raised the royal standard of Spain, and took possession of the country in the name of the king. Continuing his voyage, he once more anchored near Tumbez, where he met with a more cordial reception...
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Dictionary of American Biography: Including Men of the Time ... and a Supplement

Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1879 - 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 de...
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First principles of modern history, 1815-1879, from the English point of view

T S. Taylor - 1880 - 162 pages
...Continent belongs to England. In 1534, Jacques Cartier, a French sailor, ascended the River St. Lawrence, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of France. The first settlement was made by the French in 1608, when the town of Quebec was founded; and...
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Boone the backwoodsman

John Stevens C. Abbott - 1880 - 382 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 I a o M colonists were exterminated by the...
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American Antiquarian: A Quarterly Journal, Devoted to Early ..., Volume 2

Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1880 - 370 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. [Vol. 1, p. 379.] I base my opinion, thirdly, on- a letter of Count Fronteuac. In this...
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Records of the Olden Time: Or, Fifty Years on the Prairies. Embracing ...

Spencer Ellsworth - Marshall County (Ill.) - 1880 - 766 pages
...North Carolina, from whence the commander sailed northward as far as New Foundland, where he landed and took possession of the country in the name of the king, his master, and named it New France. In 1534 France sent a new and successful explorer to further view...
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The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525, Volume 1

Arthur James Weise - America - 1884 - 446 pages
...accomplice. * * * " We planted a cross on the summit of a neighboring mountain, which we named Monte Cristo, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Spain. * * * " Continuing our course toward the south, on the twenty-first of October, in fifty-two...
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The city of gold; or, The wonderful story of H. Cortes and the conquest of ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - Aztecs - 1884 - 280 pages
...i2th), where, after a brief though desperate struggle with the natives, Cortes disembarked his troops and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain. Striking inland, he found that he was in a territory called Tabasco, and that the whole population...
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