Statistics for occurrence #1 of “North America” in chapter 7 of George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.:
...whose achievement made Lisbon the emporium of Europe.
Thorne and Eliot, of Bristol, visited Newfoundland probably in 1502; in that year, savages in their wild attire were exhibited to the king; but North America as yet invited no colony, for it promised no sudden wealth, while the Indies more and more inflamed commercial cupidity.
In March, 1501, Henry VII.
granted an exclusive privilege of trade to a co...
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