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Rupert Sargent Holland. Historic Adventures
Historic Adventures
Table of Contents
Illustrations
I. THE LOST CHILDREN
II. THE GREAT JOURNEY OF LEWIS AND CLARK
III. THE CONSPIRACY OF AARON BURR
IV. HOW THE YOUNG REPUBLIC FOUGHT THE BARBARY PIRATES
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V. THE FATE OF LOVEJOY'S PRINTING-PRESS
VI. HOW MARCUS WHITMAN SAVED OREGON
VII. HOW THE MORMONS CAME TO SETTLE UTAH
VIII. THE GOLDEN DAYS OF 'FORTY-NINE
IX. HOW THE UNITED STATES MADE FRIENDS WITH JAPAN
X. THE PIG THAT ALMOST CAUSED A WAR
XI. JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY
XII. AN ARCTIC EXPLORER
XIII. THE STORY OF ALASKA
XIV. HOW THE "MERRIMAC" WAS SUNK IN SANTIAGO HARBOR
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Rupert Sargent Holland
Tales from American History
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The first colony on the Gulf was established seventeen years later at Biloxi by a Canadian seigneur named Iberville. Soon afterward this seigneur's brother, Bienville, founded New Orleans and attracted many French pioneers there. The French proved to be better explorers than farmers or settlers. In the south they hunted the sources of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, and discovered the little-known Pawnee and Comanche Indians. In the north they pressed westward and came in sight of the Rocky Mountains. At that time it seemed as if France was to own at least two-thirds of the continent. The English general, Braddock, was defeated at Fort Duquesne in 1755, and the French commanded the Ohio as well as the Mississippi; but four years later the English general, Wolfe, won the victory of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec; and France's chance was over. Men in Paris who knew little concerning the new world did not scruple to give away their country's title to vast lands. The French ceded Canada and all of La Salle's old province of Louisiana east of the Mississippi, except New Orleans, to England. Soon afterward France, to outwit England, gave Spain New Orleans and her claim to the half of the Mississippi Valley west of the river to which the name Louisiana now came to be restricted.
The French, however, were great adventurers by nature, and Napoleon, changing the map of Europe, could not keep his fingers from North America. He planned to win back the New France that had been given away. Spain was weak, and Napoleon traded a small province in Italy for the great tract of Louisiana. He meant to colonize and fortify this splendid empire, but before it could be done enemies gathered against his eagles at home, and to save his European throne he had to forsake his western colony.
