The Old Northwest: With a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by the Royal ChartersT. MacCoun, 1888 - 440 halaman |
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... never played any part in history until our own times . But to hold Florida against all comers was to Spain a simple necessity . The peninsula offered an excellent base for attack- ing the fleets that bore the spoil of the East Indies ...
... never played any part in history until our own times . But to hold Florida against all comers was to Spain a simple necessity . The peninsula offered an excellent base for attack- ing the fleets that bore the spoil of the East Indies ...
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... never be known . They undoubtedly belonged to that class of Indian hunters who , following every stream to its head- spring , and entering every gap in the mountain ranges , dis- covered the path leading from the Potomac by Wills ...
... never be known . They undoubtedly belonged to that class of Indian hunters who , following every stream to its head- spring , and entering every gap in the mountain ranges , dis- covered the path leading from the Potomac by Wills ...
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... never put at rest until she yielded the whole peninsula in 1763. France at first claimed the Atlantic coast south of Nova Scotia under the voyage of Verrazzano ; but the failure of the Huguenot colonies in Carolina and Florida , and the ...
... never put at rest until she yielded the whole peninsula in 1763. France at first claimed the Atlantic coast south of Nova Scotia under the voyage of Verrazzano ; but the failure of the Huguenot colonies in Carolina and Florida , and the ...
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... never ended until France retired from the continent . The remark should be added that it is impossible to repre- sent correctly these facts on maps . The names " Acadia , " " Virginia , " and " Florida " stand for very different things ...
... never ended until France retired from the continent . The remark should be added that it is impossible to repre- sent correctly these facts on maps . The names " Acadia , " " Virginia , " and " Florida " stand for very different things ...
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... never developed a self - reli- ant colonial character , but were more than content to go on as they began the children of patronage and power . But they desired to enlarge the borders of France and increase her glory ; they loved the ...
... never developed a self - reli- ant colonial character , but were more than content to go on as they began the children of patronage and power . But they desired to enlarge the borders of France and increase her glory ; they loved the ...
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Halaman 272 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Halaman 271 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Halaman 272 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Halaman 418 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Halaman 98 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Halaman 177 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Halaman 146 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Halaman 263 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion under a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Halaman 95 - River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Halaman 341 - Louis river; thence up the main channel of said river to the first rapids in the same, above the Indian village, according to Nicollet's map; thence due south to the main branch of the river St.