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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 395 395 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 46 46 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 29 29 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 26 26 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
lache, where they had pictured to themselves a populous town, and food and treasure, and found only a hamlet of forty wretched cabins. Here they remained for five and twenty days, July. scouring the country round in quest of silver and gold, till perishing with hunger and weakened by fierce attacks, they abandoned all hope but of an escape from a region so remote and malign. Amidst increasing dangers they went onward through deep lagoons and the ruinous forest in search of the sea, till Aug. they came upon a bay, Cette baye est precisement ce que Garcilasso de la Vega appelle dans son histoire de la Floride le Port d'aute. Charlevoix: Journal Hist. Let. XXXIV., p. 473. I adhere to the constant tradition. which they called Baia de Caballos, and which now forms the harbor of Saint Mark's. No trace could be found of their ships; sustaining life, therefore, by the flesh of their horses and by six or seven hundred bushels of maize plundered from the Indians, they beat their stirr
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
ong resided in Seville, proposed voyages to the east by way of the north; believing that there would be found an open sea near the pole, over which, during the arctic continuous day, Englishmen might reach the land of spices without travelling half so far as by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1527 an expedition, favored by Henry VIII. and Wolsey, sailed from Plymouth for the discovery of the northwest passage. But the larger ship was lost in July among icebergs in a great storm; in August, accounts of the disaster were forwarded to the king and to the cardinal from the haven of St. John, in Newfoundland. The fisheries of that region were already frequented not by the English only, but also by Normans, Biscayans, and Bretons. The repudiation of Catharine of Aragon by Henry VIII. sundered his political connection with Spain, which already began to fear English rivalry in the New World. He was vigorous in his attempts to Chap. III.} suppress piracy; and the navigation of
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
visions. It was the most fortunate step which had been taken,; and proved the wisdom of Cecil, and others, whose firmness had prevailed. The promptness of this relief merits admiration. In May, Dale had written from Virginia, and the last of August, the new recruits, under Gates, were already Aug. at Jamestown. So unlooked for was this supply, that at their approach, they were regarded with fear as a hostile fleet. Who can describe the joy which ensued, when they were found to be friendsAug. at Jamestown. So unlooked for was this supply, that at their approach, they were regarded with fear as a hostile fleet. Who can describe the joy which ensued, when they were found to be friends? Gates assumed the government amidst the thanksgivings of the colony, and at once endeavored to employ the sentiment of religious gratitude as a foundation of order and of laws. Lord bless England, our sweet native country, was the morning and evening prayer of the grateful emigrants. Praier said morning and evening, in Lawes Divine, &c. p. 92. The colony now numbered seven hundred men; and Dale, with the consent of Gates, went far up the river to found the new plantation, which, in honor
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
servants in Virginia differed from that of slaves chiefly in the duration of their bondage; and the laws of the colony favored their early enfranchisement. Hening, i. 257. But this state of labor easily admitted the introduction of perpetual servitude. The commerce of Virginia had been at first monopolized by the company; but as its management for the benefit of the corporation led to frequent dissensions, it was in 1620 laid open to free competition. Stith, 171. In the 1620 month of August of that year, just fourteen months after the first representative assembly of Virginia, four months before the Plymouth colony landed in America, and less than a year before the concession of a written constitution, more than a century after the last vestiges of hereditary slavery had disappeared from English society and the English constitution, and six years after the commons of France had petitioned for the emancipation of every serf in every fief, a Dutch manof-war entered James River, a
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
e. An embassy from the little colony to their new ally, July performed, not with the pomp of modern missions, but through the forests and on foot, and received, not to the luxuries of courts, but to a share in the abstinence of savage life, confirmed the treaty of amity, and prepared the wav for a trade in furs. The marks of devastation from a former plague were visible wherever the envoys went, and they witnessed the ex- Chap. VIII.} 1621. treme poverty and feebleness of the natives. Aug. The influence of the English over the aborigines was rapidly extended. A sachem, who menaced their safety, was himself compelled to sue for mercy; and nine chieftains subscribed an instrument of submission Sept. 18. to King James. The Bay of Massachusetts and harbor of Boston were fearlessly explored. Canonicus, the wavering sachem of the Narragansetts, whose territory had escaped the ravages of the pestilence, had at first desired to treat of peace. A bundle of arrows. 1622. wrappe
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ame in at the door and not at the window; by the act of the congregation and not by the authority of a prelate. A day in August was appointed for the election of ruling elders and deacons. Thus the church, like that of Plymouth, was self-constituteer. These better auspices, and the invitations of Win throp, won new emigrants from Europe. During the 1633. July and Aug. long summer voyage of the two hundred passengers, who freighted the Griffin, three sermons a day beguiled their weariness.st, and often but a more honorable name for self-will. The government feared, or pretended to fear, a disturbance of the Aug. public peace, a wild insurrection of lawless fanatics. A synod of the ministers of New England was therefore assembled, tovernment. Eaton, Davenport, and five others, were the seven Pillars for the new House of Wisdom, in the wilderness. In August, Aug. 23. 1639, the seven pillars assembled, possessing for the time absolute power. Having abrogated every previous ex