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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 456 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 154 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 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) 64 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 58 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 54 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 40 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 38 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 36 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
eighth he entered the great bay, now known as Delaware; and gave one day to its rivers, its currents. Lawrence, and to the Bays of Chesapeake and Delaware; of which, long before Europeans anchored offMohawk valley, struck a branch head's Of the, Delaware, and made their way to Indians near the site n the Unrest to explore the bay and rivers of Delaware. On his return to Holland in 1616, the merchs council. It is the oldest deed for land in Delaware, and comprises the water-line of the two soutodyn and Blommaert. The first settlement in Delaware, older than any in Pennsylvania, Chap. XV.} to the wilderness; and the Dutch now occupied Delaware. On the fifth of May, Heyes and Hosset, inse of the year 1637, he sailed for the Bay of Delaware. Two vessels, the Key of Calmar, and the Grif Creek, within the limits of the present state of Delaware, Christiana Fort, so called from the litccupied by Europeans; that commonwealth, like Delaware, traces its lineage to the Swedes, who had p[5 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
gent of the duke of York, who still possessed Delaware, exacted customs of the ships ascending to Nen the three lower counties, that is, the state of Delaware, as an appendage to New York; Pennsylvan invested with supreme and undefined power in Delaware, addressed the assembled multitude on governmt Fort Nassau, in New Jersey; and the soil of Delaware was purchased by Godyn, and colonized by De V—on a neck of land between the Schuylkill and Delaware, appointed for a town by the convenience of te birth of popular power in Pennsylvania and Delaware. It remained to dislodge super- Chap. XVI.}VI.} 1685. Oct. 17. Nov. 7. that the tract of Delaware did not constitute a part of Maryland. The pined to be settled; and the present limits of Delaware were established by a compromise. There is nt of Maryland on the side of Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, s turned to the New World. Pennsylvania, arid Delaware, and West New Jersey, and now Rhode Island, a[1 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
their young men with dauntless courage. When Hudson, John Smith, and Champlain, were in America together, the Mohawks had extended their strolls from the St. Lawrence to Virginia; half Long Island paid them tribute; and a Mohawk sachem was reverenced on Massachusetts Bay. The geographical position of their fixed abodes, including within their immediate sway the headlands not of the Hudson only, hut of the rivers that flow to the gulfs of Mexico and St. Lawrence, the bays of Chesapeake and Delaware, opened widest regions to their canoes, and invited them to make their war-paths along the channels where New York and Pennsylvania are now perfecting the avenues of commerce. Becoming possessed of fire-arms by intercourse with the Dutch, they renewed their merciless, hereditary warfare with the Hurons; 1649. and, in the following years, the Eries, on the south 1653 to 1655 shore of the lake of which the name commemorates their existence, were defeated and extirpated. The Allegha- 1656