| Edna Henry Lee Turpin - 1911 - 546 Seiten
...crossed the stormy Atlantic, reached the coast of North America, which he thought was a part of Asia, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of England. Cabot saw no people, but he found snares for game, needles for making nets, and other signs... | |
| Joseph Gaston - 1912 - 1078 Seiten
...Washington, about seventy-five miles south of the entrance to the Straits of Fuca. Here Heceta erected a cross and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Spain. And this was the first time European people had set foot on the coast of old Oregon, and made... | |
| Henrietta Christian Wright - 1913 - 382 Seiten
...After a few days he landed a little north of the place where the city of St. Augustine now stands, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain. He then began again his search for the wonderful fountain, feeling sure that here where the... | |
| Karl Frederick Geiser - 1918 - 112 Seiten
...1500, when a Portuguese navigator, Pedro Alvares Cabral, landed not far from the present city of Bahia and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. For a tune the Crown paid little attention to the new possession, but about the year 1530 the country... | |
| James Baldwin - 1918 - 410 Seiten
...The Matthew sailed along within sight of it for nearly nine hundred miles. Cabot landed now and then and took possession of the country in the name of the king of England. But he found no such beautiful and interesting things as Columbus had discovered farther south.... | |
| George Herbert Locke - 1919 - 170 Seiten
...March 13th, near the mouth of the Arkansas River. Landing there La Salle raised the banner of France, planted a cross, and took possession of the country in the name of the King. Thence down the river they went for three hundred miles to the Taensas Indians, who lived in large... | |
| Charles Morris - 1921 - 518 Seiten
...the year Alvarez Cabrai reached the coast of Brazil farther south than the point touched by Pinzón, and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Portugal. In 1513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien, and discovered the Pacific Ocean. In... | |
| Eugene Clyde Brooks - 1922 - 280 Seiten
...Columbus, the Portuguese commander, Pedro Alvarez Cabral, followed him by accident a year later (1500) and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Portugal. It was thus, accidentally, that Brazil became a province of Portugal rather than of Spain. The country... | |
| Josephus Nelson Larned - 1922 - 942 Seiten
...'Pasqua Florida,' he gave it the name of Florida from this circumstance. He landed on the 2d of April, and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Castile. The warlike people of the coast of Cautio (a name given by the Indians to all the country... | |
| Robert Adams Gibbs - 1925 - 318 Seiten
...would take when walking across level country." Coronado had many interesting adventures during his trip and took possession of the country in the name of the king of Spain. The object of the expedition, which was to obtain gold and silver, was not accomplished, however,... | |
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