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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
more Before Columbus and Cabot severally discovered the Continent of North and South America. In 1505 a narrative of his voyages to America was published at Strasburg, entitled Americus Vesputius de Orbe Antarcticozzz per Regum Portugalliaa Pridem Zzzjurenta. From that publication, bearing the untrue date of his first voyage. Vespucius acquired the reputation of being the first discoverer of America. Alluding to that false date and the statements under it, the learned and conscientious Charlevoix wrote that Ojeda, when judicially interrogated, gave the lie direct to the statement. And Herrera, an early Spanish historian, accuses Vespucius of purposely falsifying the date of two of his voyages, and of confounding one with the other. in order that he might arrogate to himself the glory of having discovered the continent. Finally, when Columbus was dead, and no voice of accusation or denial could escape his lips, the narratives of Vespucius were published at St. Diey, in Lorraine,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de (search)
Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de Traveller; born in Saint-Quentin, France, Oct. 29, 1682. He was sent as a Jesuit missionary to Quebec in 1705; later returned to France; and in 1720 again went to Canada. On his second visit he ascended the St. Lawrence River; travelled through Illinois; and sailed down the Mississippi to New Orleans; and returned to France in 1722. His publications include Histoire de la nouvelle France. He died in La Fleche, France, Feb. 1, 1761. See Jesuit missions.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
New Orleans. Governor Bienville prepared to found a town on the lower Mississippi in 1718, and sent a party of convicts to clear up a swamp on the site of the present city of New Orleans. When Charlevoix visited the spot in 1722, the germ of the city consisted of a large wooden warehouse, a shed for a church, two or three ordinary houses, and a quantity of huts built without order. But Bienville believed that it would one day become, perhaps, too, at no distant day, an opulent city, the metropolis of a great and rich colony, and removed the seat of government from Biloxi to New Orleans. Law's settlers in Arkansas (see law, John), finding themselves abandoned, went down to New Orleans and received allotments on both sides of the river, settled on cottage farms, and raised vegetables for the supply of the town and soldiers. Thus the rich tract near New Orleans became known as the German coast. After Spain had acquired possession of Louisiana by treaty with France (1763), the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shea, John Dawson Gilmary 1824-1892 (search)
hich his father was principal; was admitted to the bar in 1846, but soon abandoned the law practice and devoted himself to literature. He was deeply interested in the work of the early Catholic missions among the American Indians, and spent much time in collecting material out of which to write a history of the Catholic Church in the United States. His publications include The discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley; History of the Catholic missions among the Indian tribes of the United States; The fallen brave; Early voyages up and down the Mississippi; Novum Belgium, an, account of the New Netherlands in 1643-44; The operations of the French under Count de Grasse; and The Lincoln Memorial. He also translated from the French many works relating to the United States, including Charlevoix's History and General description, of New France; Hennepin's Description of Louisiana; De Courcy's Catholic Church in the United States, etc. He died in Elizabeth, N. J., Feb. 22, 1892.