The History of North and South America, from Its Discovery to the Death of General Washington, Volumes 1-2Benjamin Warner, and sold at his stores, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1819 - America |
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... fleet arrives at Virginia , commanded by count D'Estaing , Stony Point taken by general Wayne , 87 91 92 98 ib ... fleets in the Chesa peake , Surrender of Cornwallis at York Town in Virginia , Treaty of peace ratified , Washington takes ...
... fleet arrives at Virginia , commanded by count D'Estaing , Stony Point taken by general Wayne , 87 91 92 98 ib ... fleets in the Chesa peake , Surrender of Cornwallis at York Town in Virginia , Treaty of peace ratified , Washington takes ...
Page 14
... fleet should be fitted out , under his command , to attempt a discovery , and demanded to be appointed perpetual and hereditary admiral and viceroy of all the seas and lands he should discover , and to have the bly of the profits ...
... fleet should be fitted out , under his command , to attempt a discovery , and demanded to be appointed perpetual and hereditary admiral and viceroy of all the seas and lands he should discover , and to have the bly of the profits ...
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... fleet so unfit for a distant navigation , to explore unknown seas , where he had no chart to guide him , no knowledge of the tides and currents , and no experinence of the dangers to which , in all probability , he would be exposed ...
... fleet so unfit for a distant navigation , to explore unknown seas , where he had no chart to guide him , no knowledge of the tides and currents , and no experinence of the dangers to which , in all probability , he would be exposed ...
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... fleet was above two hundred leagues to the west of the Canaries : the greatest distance from land that any Spaniard had been before that time . But now they were struck with an appearance that was aston- ishing , because it was new ...
... fleet was above two hundred leagues to the west of the Canaries : the greatest distance from land that any Spaniard had been before that time . But now they were struck with an appearance that was aston- ishing , because it was new ...
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... fleet , all three saw it move as from place to place . A little after mid- night , the joyful sound of Land ! Land ! was heard from La Pinta , which always kept a head of the other ships . Deceived so often , by fallacious appearances ...
... fleet , all three saw it move as from place to place . A little after mid- night , the joyful sound of Land ! Land ! was heard from La Pinta , which always kept a head of the other ships . Deceived so often , by fallacious appearances ...
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