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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
opulation 1890, 5,997,853; 1900, 7,268,012. It is the Empire State of the Union in wealth and population. Capital, Albany. Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine, under commission of Francis I. of France, with a single caravel, the Dauphin, enters the bay of New York......April, 1524 Half Moon, eighty tons, leaves Amsterdam; Henry Hudson, an Englishman, commander......April 4, 1609 Samuel de Champlain, coming from the north with a war-party of Hurons, discovers Lake Champlain......July, 1609 Defeats the Iroquois near Ticonderoga; hence dates the enmity between the French and Iroquois; fire-arms first seen by the Indians......July 30, 1609 Half Moon enters New York Bay......Sept. 11, 1609 Anchors just below Albany......Sept. 19, 1609 Despatches a boat to sound the river farther up......Sept. 22, 1609 Sails out of the Narrows......Oct. 4, 1609 Hendrick Christiaensen and Adriaen Block sail Amsterdam vessels, the Fortune and the Tiger, to Manhattan Island......16
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XXIII (search)
XXIII Weapons of precision when in July, 1609, the Iroquois Indians first saw a gun fired, and saw two men fall dead at a distance, because the Sieur de Champlain had raised something to his cheek, they were so utterly frightened that the whole tribe ran away, abandoning their camp and their provisions. Yet the gun was only a short weapon, then called an arquebus, and loaded with four balls. It did not take long for these very Indians to learn the use of the arquebus; and yet, if one of them were to come to life again and look at a modern rifle, it would cause him as much amazement as if he had never seen a firearm. These delicate grooves and spiral curves would strike him as a piece of mere affectation; and he would prefer by all means an honest old-fashioned affair that would send a bullet straight to its mark. He would not be convinced until he again saw a man fall dead, and this time at an incredible distance, by an invisible blow. Now, style In writing is a weapon fa