The Epic of AmericaLittle, Brown,, 1959 - 405 pages |
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... English could brook . In 1584 , Richard Hakluyt was writing to plead that if the English colonized and fortified some points in America and preyed on the Spanish plate fleets , “ no doubte but the Spanishe empire falls to the ground and ...
... English could brook . In 1584 , Richard Hakluyt was writing to plead that if the English colonized and fortified some points in America and preyed on the Spanish plate fleets , “ no doubte but the Spanishe empire falls to the ground and ...
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... English colonies , we find an entirely new set of conditions , which caused the English to take a place between the cultural failure of the French and the success of the Spaniards . To develop the higher life of a civilization requires ...
... English colonies , we find an entirely new set of conditions , which caused the English to take a place between the cultural failure of the French and the success of the Spaniards . To develop the higher life of a civilization requires ...
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... English . By 1700 there were about two hundred and sixty thousand English- men in the colonies , or about a hundred thousand more than there were Spaniards in New Spain , whereas there were only about thir- teen thousand French on the ...
... English . By 1700 there were about two hundred and sixty thousand English- men in the colonies , or about a hundred thousand more than there were Spaniards in New Spain , whereas there were only about thir- teen thousand French on the ...
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