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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
aces this event in 1545, without reason. but no considerable advances in geographical knowledge appear to have been made. The winter passed in sullenness and gloom. In June of the following year, he and his 1542 ships stole away and returned to France, just as Roberval arrived with a considerable reinforcement. Unsustained by Cartier, Roberval accomplished no more than a verification of previous discoveries. Remaining about a year in America, he abandoned his immense viceroy- Chap. I.} 1542. alty. Estates in Picardy were better than titles in Norimbega. His subjects must have been a sad company; during the winter, one was hanged for theft; several were put in irons; and divers persons, as well women as men, were whipped. By these means quiet was preserved. Perhaps the expedition on its return entered the Bay of Massachusetts; the French diplomatists always remembered, that Boston was built within the original limits of New France. The commission of Roberval was followed b
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
in gold or thickly enough settled to be worth dividing as estates, Coronado, in 1542, 1542. with the hearty concurrence of his officers, returned to New Spain. His1542. with the hearty concurrence of his officers, returned to New Spain. His failure to find a Northern Peru threw him out of favor; yet what could have more deserved applause than the courage and skill of the men who so thoroughly examined ter lands at a distance. In the spring of the following year, Soto determined 1542 Mar. 6. to descend the Washita to its junction, and to get tidings of the sea. A, with eight horsemen, to descend the banks of the Mississippi, and Chap. II.} 1542. explore the country. They travelled eight days, and were able to advance not m heard on the waters of the Mississippi. To conceal his death, his Chap. II.} 1542. body was wrapped in a mantle, and, in the stillness of midnight, was silently sesperate as the resolution seemed, it was determined to return once Chap. II.} 1542. more to its banks, and follow its current to the sea. There were not wanting me
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
s Drake, Hak. III. 524; Johnson's Life of Drake. Here the cold seemed 1579. June. intolerable to men who had just left the tropics. Despairing of success, he retired to a harbor in a milder latitude, within the limits of Mexico; and, having refitted his ship, and named the country New Albion, he sailed for England, through the seas of Asia. Thus was the southern part of the Oregon territory first visited by Englishmen, yet not till after a voyage of the Spanish from Acapulco, commanded by 1542. Cabrillo, a Portuguese, had traced the American continent to within two and a half degrees of the mouth of Columbia River; Forster's Northern Voyages, III. c. IV. s. II. Humboldt, Nouv Esp. II. 436, 437. Compare Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana, 34. 36. 57. while, thirteen years after the 1593 voyage of Drake, John de Fuca, a mariner from the Chap. III.} 1593 Isles of Greece, then in the employ of the viceroy of Mexico, sailed into the bay which is now known as the Gulf of Geo