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A popular history of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (of 2) : $b from the discovery of the American continent to the present time — John Shaqi

A popular history of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (of 2) : $b from the discovery of the American continent to the present timeHowitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

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A popular history of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (of 2) : $b from the discovery of the American continent to the present time

Name: A popular history of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (of 2) : $b from the discovery of the American continent to the present time
Author: Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

United States -- History

[Illustration: LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS.]




                                   A
                            POPULAR HISTORY
                                 OF THE
                             UNITED STATES
                                   OF
                                AMERICA:
   FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT TO THE PRESENT TIME.


                            BY MARY HOWITT.

                 Illustrated with Numerous Engravings.

                                VOL. I.


                               NEW YORK:
                     HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
                            FRANKLIN SQUARE.
                                 1860.




  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
                        hundred and fifty-nine, by

                            HARPER & BROTHERS,

 in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of
                                New York.




                          CONTENTS TO VOL. I.


                               CHAPTER I.

                      DISCOVERIES—TO THE YEAR 1521.

 America discovered by the Vikings.—Runic pillars of Rask and
 Finn Magnusen.—Christopher Columbus: his various voyages.—John
 and Sebastian Cabot.—The Portuguese.—Vasco de Gama and
 Cortereal.—John Verazzani despatched by Francis I. reaches Nova
 Scotia.—Jacques Cartier’s voyages.—Ponce de Leon discovers
 Florida.—Fernandez de Cordova discovers Yucatan.—Conquest of
 Mexico by Cortes                                                   1–12


                               CHAPTER II.

                       DISCOVERIES—(_continued_).

 Pamphilo de Narvaez’ expedition to Florida.—Ferdinand de Soto
 lands with 600 men.—Their adventures in search of
 gold.—Sufferings and death of de Soto.—The Mississippi
 discovered.—Florida colonised by Huguenots.—The French
 settlement destroyed by Pedro Melendez.—English
 discovery.—Willoughby and Richard Chancellor.—Frobisher.—Sir
 Humphrey Gilbert.—Sir Walter Raleigh.—The colony of Virginia
 and its fortunes.—Sir Francis Drake                               13–28


                              CHAPTER III.

                       DISCOVERIES—(_continued_).

 Second attempt of Raleigh to colonise Virginia.—Rupture with
 the natives.—Delay in the supply of necessaries to the
 colonists.—Misfortunes of Raleigh.—His efforts for the
 colony.—Bartholomew Gosnold lands at Cape Cod.—Penobscot river
 discovered.—The voyages of the French.—Nova Scotia, New
 Brunswick, Acadia.—Quebec founded in 1608.—Samuel
 Champlain.—Henry Hudson’s voyages to the north.—He endeavours
 to discover a passage to the Pacific.—His sufferings and death    29–38


                               CHAPTER IV.

                        COLONISATION OF VIRGINIA.

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