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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The discoverie of the large, rich, and beautifull Empire
of Guiana , with a relation of the great and golden citie
of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado ) and the
provinces of Emeria , Aromaia , Amapaia , and other
countries, with their rivers adjoyning. Performed in
the yeere 1595 by Sir Walter Ralegh Knight , Captaine
of Her Majesties Guard , Lorde Warden of the Stanneries , and Her Highnesse Lieutenant Generall of the
Countie of Corne-wall . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The discoverie of Guiana
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , October (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 45 : the cruise of the Sumter and the havoc she committed. (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 10 (search)
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.27 (search)
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, Index (search)
Amelia Island,
An island at the mouth of the St. Mary River, near the boundary between Georgia and Florida.
In the summer of 1817 Gregor McGregor, styling himself Brigadier-general of the armies of New Granada and Venezuela, and general-in-chief employed to liberate the provinces of both the Floridas.
commissioned by the supreme councils of Mexico and South America, took possession of this island.
His followers were a band of adventurers which he had collected in Charleston and Savannah; and when he took possession he proclaimed a blockade of St. Augustine.
In the hands of these desperadoes the island was soon converted into a resort of buccaneering privateers under the Spanish-American flag, and a depot for smuggling slaves into the United States.
Another similar establishment had been set up on Galveston Island, off the coast of Texas, under a leader named Aury.
This establishment was more important than that on Amelia Island, as well on account of numbers as for the grea