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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 568 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 440 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 114 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 72 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 62 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 54 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 48 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 38 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 36 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
e would, at that day, have tolerated—not one would have fostered—an insurrection. Spain, Spanish Belgium, Holland, and Austria, were then the allies of England against France, which, by centralizing its power, and by well-considered plans of territorial aggrandizement, excited the dread of a universal monarchy. When Austria, with Belgium, shall abandon its hereditary warfare against France. when Spain and Holland, favored by the armed neutrality of Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, and Russia, shall be ready to join with France in repressing Chap. XX.} the commercial ambition of England;—then, and not till then, American independence becomes possible. Those changes, extraordinary and improbable as they might have seemed, were to spring from the false principles of the mercantile system, which made France and England enemies. Our borders were become the scenes of jealous collision; our soil was the destined battle-ground on which the grand conflict of the rivals for commercial <
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
emblances cannot be traced between two families that have dwelt side by side apparently for centuries, who will hope to recover the traces of the mother tongue in Siberia or China? The results of comparison have thus far rebuked, rather than satisfied, curiosity. It is still more evident, that similarity of customs furnishes nop. XXII.} ence than between the Mongolian Tatar and the North American. The Iroquois is more unlike the Peruvian than he is unlike the wanderer on the steppes of Siberia. Physiology has not succeeded in defining the qualities which belong to every well-formed Mongolian, and which never belong to an indigenous American; still lesso inconsiderable, that the daring Ledyard, whose ardent curiosity filled him with the passion to circumnavigate the globe and cross its continents, as he stood in Siberia, with men of the Mongolian race before him, and compared them with the Indians who had been his old play-fellows and school-mates at Dartmouth, writes Sparks s L
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
which, next to Goa and Batavia, was the most opulent of the European establishments in India. Russia, also, was invoked to take part in the contest; and, in her first political associations with ou, she was on the side of our fathers, the ally of Austria, the stipendiary of England. Thus did Russia, hastening by her interference the approach of peace, indirectly act upon the fortunes of Americbears his name. The gallant Danish mariner did not know that. he had seen America; and, though Russia, by right of discovery, thus gained the north-west of our continent no conception dawned on the ressed citizens of Boston were dismissed from the English fleet. The alliance of Austria with Russia hastened negotiations for the pacification of Europe; and a congress convened at Aix la Chapellety, captured and condemned her vessels. On Chap. XXIV.} occasion of the war between Sweden and Russia, the principle was again urged by the Dutch, and likewise 1748 rejected by the Swedes. Even Pr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., R. (search)
4. His assigns, 107. Character of, 108. A prisoner, 136. Randolph, Edward, II. 111. Rasles, Sebastian, III. 333, 337. Raymbault, Father, III. 129, 131,132. Reformation in England, I. 274. Regicides, II 32. Revolution of 1688, II. 445. Effect on New England, 447. On New York, 450. On New Jersey, 451. Its political theory, III. 9. Its character, 12. Loved privilege, 82. Rhode Island, island of, I. 392. Rhode Island, colony of, first settled, I. 379. Its charter, 425. Fostered by Charles II., II. 61. New charter, 62. Freedom of conscience in, 65. Loses its liberty, 431. Its population, II. 69. Ribault discovers River St. John, I. 61. Leaves a colony in Carolina, 62. Revisits it, 66. Rice introduced into Carolina, II. 20. Roberval's voyages, I. 22. Robinson, John, I. 306. His death, 321. Rolfe, Thomas, I. 146. Rowlandson, Mary, III. 106. Russia makes discoveries, III. 453. Rut's voyage, I. 76. Ryswick, peace of, III. 192.