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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ne season, bring home peltry worth sixteen hundred dollars. Ibid, 25, 26. So the Mississippi valley was entered at Pittsburg, on the New River, and on the Holston and Clinch. It was only Florida, the new conquest, accepted in exchange for Havana, that civilized men left as a desert. When, in July, possession of it was taken, the whole number of its inhabitants, of every age and sex, men, wives, children, and servants, was three thousand, and of these the men were almost all in the pay oobertson's Report of up to the year 1796. Knoxville, the State of E. and W. Florida, 115. The possession of it had cost Spain nearly two hundred and thirty thousand dollars annually; and now Spain, as a compen- chap. IX.} 1763. Oct. sation for Havana, made over to England the territory which occasioned this fruitless expense. Most of the people, receiving from the Spanish treasury indemnity for their losses, migrated to Cuba, taking with them the bones of their saints and the ashes of their