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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 4 2 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
bastian Gabot Cabot. : In the latter part of this volume are put certain relations of John De Verarzana, Verrazzano. a Florentine, and of a great captain, a Frenchman, and the two voyages of Jaques Cartier, a Briton, i.e., from Brittany, in France. who sailed into the land set in fifty degrees of latitude to the north, which is called New France: and the which lands hitherto it is not thoroughly known whether they do join with the firm land of Florida and Nova Hispania, or whether tty had been already duly informed thereof. Now by these presents I will give your Majesty to understand how, by the violence of the winds, we were forced with the two ships, the Norman and the Dolphin, in such evil case as they were, to land in Brittany. Where after we had repaired them in all points as was needful, and armed them very well, we took our course along by the coast of Spain. Afterwards, with the Dolphin alone, we determined to make discovery of new countries, to prosecute the na
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 5 (search)
eresting description of Cartier's adventures, including those here described, may be found in Parkman's Pioneers of France in the New World, p. 81. Another account of the same events, illustrated by the maps of the period, will also be found in Kohl's valuable History of the Discovery of the East Coast of North America (Maine Historical Society, 2d series, vol. I), p. 320. I.—Cartier's visit to Bay of Chaleur. [Jacques Cartier was born in 1494, at St. Malo, a principal port of Brittany, France. He was bred to the sea; and, having made fishing-voyages to the Grand banks of Labrador, he desired to make an exploration farther west. For this purpose an expedition was fitted out by King Francis I. Of France, as is described below.] The first relation Description. of Jacques Cartier of St. Malo, of the new land called New France, In the map of Ortelius, published in 1572, the name of New France is applied to the whole of both North and South America. The application of t