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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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Children's Stories in American History

Henrietta Christian Wright - America - 1913 - 382 pages
...After a few days he landed a little north of the place where the city of St. Augustine now stands, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain. He then began again his search for the wonderful fountain, feeling sure that here where the flowers forever...
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Barnes's Elementary History of the United States

James Baldwin - United States - 1918 - 410 pages
...The Matthew sailed along within sight of it for nearly nine hundred miles. Cabot landed now and then and took possession of the country in the name of the king of England. But he found no such beautiful and interesting things as Columbus had discovered farther south....
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Democracy Versus Autocracy: A Comparative Study of Governments in the World War

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...
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When Canada was New France

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...
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Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive ..., Volume 9

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...
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The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research ..., Volume 1

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...
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Stories of South America: Historical and Geographical

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....
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Western tales

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,...
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The Fiesta Book

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...
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Religion, Commerce, Liberty: A Record of a Time of Storm and Change, 1683-1793

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,...
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