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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	334	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.	42	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.	42	0	Browse	Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight)	40	0	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	34	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition.	32	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	30	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.	28	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition.	26	0	Browse	Search
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Browsing named entities in Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for North America or search for North America in all documents.

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Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: Maryland in its Origin, progress, and Eventual relations to the Confederate movement. (search)

e the Spaniard ransacked two continents for silver and gold, found them and ruined his posterity, the French, actuated by no nobler ideals, made settlements in North America, the main inspiration of which was the desire to possess the great fisheries on the north-eastern coast. The English, in the main, had higher aims, and wider,ld. The spirit that had shattered the Grand Armada and won for commerce the freedom of the seas, was directed to new countries and new States to be founded in North America, where the institutions, the habits, the sentiment and the society of their ancestors were to be transplanted, cultivated and developed, as they had been a tho soldiers, and merchants of England were aroused to this great enterprise. They formed the Virginia company and received a grant from the king of that part of North America unoccupied by French or Spaniards. The enterprise of settlement, transportation and support of colonies proved too much for the company, and its grant was tak

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