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Darien, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
the Creek nation, some of them kindred to the loyalists who fell victims to their fidelity to the Stuarts, embarked for America, and established New Inverness, in Darien, ‘Where wild Altama murmured to their woe.’ Within a few weeks, a new company of three 1736 Feb. 6 hundred emigrants, conducted by Oglethorpe himself, whose orks and poles in Chap XXIV.} regular rows—a tight and convenient shelter for the emigrants. It was but ten miles from Frederica to the Scottish settlement at Darien. To give heart to them by his presence, Oglethorpe, in the Highland costume, sailed up the Alatamaha; and all the Highlanders, as they perceived his approach, ass and bonfires, and his head selected as the favorite ornament for signposts. Meantime, he took and demolished Fort Chagre, on 1740. this side of the Isthmus of Darien; but without result; for the gales near Cape Horn had prevented the coop eration of Anson at Panama. The victory, in its effects, was sad for the northern colo<
West Indies (search for this): chapter 6
into our colonies, sometimes by way of the West Indies, and some times, especially for the south, a half, in the hundred: the harbors of the West Indies proved fatal to four and a half more out ofglish into the Spanish, French, and English West Indies, as well as the English continental coloniepublic domain was given to emigrants, in one West India colony, at least, on condition that the resi739, p. 121. Lord Mahon. Tindal T. Southry's W. Indies, II 265 pursuits of smuggling had joined mar colonies. England prepared to send to the West Indies by far the largest fleet and army that had h and Spaniards to be a month or two in the West Indies before us, that they may be half dead, and uisitions, and had inflicted on the Spanish West Indies far less evil than she herself had suffered. The disasters in the West Indies prevented the con- Chap. XXIV.} quest of Florida. Having, iiating to itself the entire commerce of the West Indies. France, though it has no treaty with Spai
Cumberland Island (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
its of Georgia; his Indian alliances gave him the superiority in the wilderness as far as the land of the Choctas. At last, to make good its pretensions, the Spanish government resolved on invading Georgia. It collected its forces from Cuba, and a large fleet, with an armament of which the force has been greatly Oglethorpe's Letters. McCall, i. 196. exaggerated, sailed towards the mouth of the St. Mary's. Fort William, which Oglethorpe had constructed at the southern extremity of Cumberland Island, defended the entrance successfully, till, fighting his way through Spanish vessels, which endeavored to intercept him, the general himself reinforced it. Then, promptly returning to St. Simon's, having no aid from Carolina; with less than a thousand men, by his vigilant activity, Chap. XXIV.} trusting in Providence, he prepared for defence. We are resolved not to suffer defeat—such was his cheer- 1742 June 24. Nachricht vom Einfall der Spanier in Georgien, <*> Urlsperger II. 1254
France (France) (search for this): chapter 6
gns of George [I. of England and Louis XV. of France, where legislation was now surrendered to theto serve as guides to the nations. England, France, and Spain, occupied all the continent, nearlytself the entire commerce of the West Indies. France, though it has no treaty with Spain, cannot coar claimed the entire Austrian succession; and France, which aimed at its dismemberment, could engagom, or began the independence, of colonies; so France, by its unjustifiable war on Austria, floated he fleet March 15. of England is victorious. France declares war against England also; and the litance and Austria, the reciprocal jealousies of France and England. The enthusiasm of other centuriehen he proudly planted the 1746 Sept. flag of France on its fortress, and made himself master of thbefore the news of the declaration of war with France had been received in New England, surprised th of repose, and of strife renewed, England and France solemnly agreed to be at peace. The treaties [12 more...]
Denmark (Denmark) (search for this): chapter 6
28, Behring demonstrated the insulation of that continent on the east. In 1741, the same intrepid navigator, sailing with two 1741 June 4. vessels from Ochotzk, discovered the narrow straits which divide the continents; caught glimpses of the mountains of North-West America; traced the line of Chap. XXIV.} the Aleutian archipelago; and, tossed by storms, in the midst of snows and ice, fell a victim to fatigue 1741 Dec 8. on a desert island of the group which bears his name. The gallant Danish mariner did not know that. he had seen America; and, though Russia, by right of discovery, thus gained the north-west of our continent no conception dawned on the lewd revellers who surrounded the empress Elizabeth, of the political institutions which already felt the weight of her influence in diplomacy, and were one day to extend their power to the borders of the empire bequeathed to her successors. While the states of Europe, by means of their wide relations, were fast forming the nat
Amelia Island (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
who, in February, had been despatched to St. Augustine, had not returned. Oglethorpe resolved himself to sustain the pretensions of Great Britain to the territory as far south as the St. John's, and the Highlanders volunteered their service. With their aid, April 18. he explored the channels south of Frederica; and on the island to which Tomo-chichi gave the name of Cumberland, he marked out a fort to be called St. Andrew's. But Oglethorpe still pressed forward to the south. Passing Amelia Island, and claiming the St. John's River as the southern boundary of the territory possessed by the Indian subjects of England at the time of the treaty at Utrecht, on the southern extremity of the island at the entrance of that stream, where myrtles and palmettoes abounded, and wild grape vines, climbing to the summit of trees, formed as beautiful Von Reck, in Urlsperger i. 848 walks as art could have designed, he planted the Fort St. George, as the defence of the British frontier. Indign
Batavia, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
en; and, limited by instructions from the French ministers to make no acquisitions of territory whatever, though, with the aid of the governor of Pondicherry, he might have gained for Mills, British India, III. Raynal Voltaire. France the entire ascendency in Hindostan, he pledged his word of honor to restore Madras to the English, in the very hour of victory, when he proudly planted the 1746 Sept. flag of France on its fortress, and made himself master of the city which, next to Goa and Batavia, was the most opulent of the European establishments in India. Russia, also, was invoked to take part in the contest; and, in her first political associations with our country, she was on the side of our fathers, the ally of Austria, the stipendiary of England. Thus did Russia, hastening by her interference the approach of peace, indirectly act upon the fortunes of America. But, at an earlier period of the war, she had, in the opposite direction, drawn near our present borders. After
Dover, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
down the Maine, and 1733 between the castled crags, the vineyards, and the white-walled towns that adorn the banks of the Rhine, their conversation, amidst hymns and prayers, was of I'm standlicher Vorbericht, 16 Nov. 27. justification, and of sanctification, and of standing fast in the Lord. At Rotterdam, they were joined by two preachers, Bolzius and Gronau, both disciplined in charity at the Orphan House in Halle. A passage of Nov. 27. Dec. 3. six days carried them from Rotterdam to Dover, where several of the trustees visited them and provided considerately for their wants. In January, 1734, they set sail for their new homes. The majesty of the ocean Reise Diarium. quickened their sense of God's omnipotence and wisdom; and, as they lost sight of land, they broke out into a hymn to his glory. The setting sun, after a calm, so kindled the sea and the sky, that words could not express their rapture; and they cried out, How lovely the creation! How infinitely lovely the Cre
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
gation was to be extended to the English trade in them, to the exclusion of aliens. The same policy was manifested in the relations Chap XXIV} between the English crown and the colonies. Land from the public domain was given to emigrants, in one West India colony, at least, on condition that the resident owner would keep four negroes for every hundred acres. The eighteenth century was, as it were, ushered in by the royal instruction of Queen Anne to the 1702 governor of New York and New Jersey, to give due encouragement to merchants, and in particular to the royal African company of England. That a similar instruction was given generally, is evident from the apology of Spotswood for the small importations of slaves into Virginia. In that commonwealth, the planters beheld with dismay the increase of negroes. A tax checks their importation; and, in 1726, 1726. May 12. Hugh Drysdale, the deputy-governor, announces to the house that the interfering interest of the African compan
Gulf of Mexico (search for this): chapter 6
e population of the United States—a moiety of those who dwell in the five states nearest the Gulf of Mexico—are descendants of Africans. The colored men who were imported into our colonies, sometimn of Georgia, 1741 when commerce with them was begun, the English coveted the harbors on the Gulf of Mexico. The good faith of Oglethorpe, in the offers of peace, his noble mien and sweetness of teso, pretending distress, would claim the right by treaty to enter the Spanish harbors on the Gulf of Mexico. In consequence, the colonial commerce of Spain was almost annihilated. In farmer days, thd to send to the West Indies by far the largest fleet and army that had ever appeared in the Gulf of Mexico, and summoned the colonies north of Carolina to contribute four battalions to the armament. ose. Havana lay within three days sail; its conquest would have made England supreme in the Gulf of Mexico. But Vernon insisted on searching for the fleet of the French and Spaniards; and the French
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