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D. H. Montgomery. The Beginner's American History
The Beginner's American History
Table of Contents
LIST OF LARGE MAPS
LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
THE BEGINNER'S AMERICAN HISTORY
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
JOHN CABOT[1]
PONCE DE LEON,[1] BALBOA,[2] AND DE SOTO[3]
SIR WALTER RALEIGH[1]
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
CAPTAIN HENRY HUDSON
CAPTAIN MYLES[1] STANDISH
LORD BALTIMORE
ROGER WILLIAMS
KING PHILIP
WILLIAM PENN
GENERAL JAMES OGLETHORPE[1]
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
GEORGE WASHINGTON
DANIEL BOONE
GENERAL JAMES ROBERTSON AND GOVERNOR JOHN SEVIER[1]
GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM
ELI WHITNEY
THOMAS JEFFERSON
ROBERT FULTON
GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON
PROFESSOR MORSE
GENERAL SAM HOUSTON
CAPTAIN ROBERT GRAY
CAPTAIN SUTTER[1]
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
SINCE THE WAR
A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS OF REFERENCE
INDEX
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D. H. Montgomery
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6 The Northmen: an uncivilized people of Norway and Denmark discovered the continent of North America about five hundred years before Cabot did. Nothing came of this discovery, and when Cabot sailed, no one seems to have known anything about what the Northmen had done so long before.
22. John Cabot takes possession of the country for the king of England.—Cabot went on shore with his son and some of his crew. In the vast, silent wilderness they set up a large cross. Near to it they planted two flag-poles, and hoisted the English flag on one and the flag of Venice,[7] the city where John Cabot had lived in Italy, on the other. Then they took possession of the land for Henry the Seventh. It was in this way that the English came to consider that the eastern coast of North America was their property, although they did not begin to make settlements here until nearly a hundred years later.
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