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SECTION FIRST.

Discoveries.

Europe before America was Discovered..

Voyages and Discoveries of the Cabots..

The Memorable Year of Discovery, 1498

Irrepressible Spirit of Adventure....

Search for the Elixir of Life in Florida....

First Robbery of Men on American Soil..

Magnificent Expedition of De Soto.......

De Soto Discovers the Mississippi...

Burial of De Soto in the Mississippi..

Raleigh's next Expedition under Grenville

PAGE Grenville, Lane, Cavendish, Hariot, White.......

Misfortunes of the Colony.-Sir Francis Drake...

An Agricultural State to be founded..

9 Waymouth Explores the Coast of Maine.

Verrazzani's Discoveries on the American Coast... 10 Captain John Smith

The Harbors of Newport and Boston.......

James Cartier's Expedition from France..

Cartier Ascends the St. Lawrence..

Francis De la Roque's Expedition..

The Protestant Reformation....

11 Gorges, Popham, Hakluyt, James I..

12 The London and Plymouth Companies..

13 The Colony of Jamestown founded..

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Raleigh, undaunted, founds another Colony....

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First English Child torn in Virginia.................

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Coligny's Huguenot Colony in Florida...........

Coligny sends a Second Expedition......

Melendez sent to Exterminate the Huguenots..... 18

St. Augustine founded.-The Huguenots Perish.. 19

England's Throne under Elizabeth

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Smith superseded by Lord Delaware....................

Smith returns disabled to England.......

Providential Rescue of the Colony...

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Lord Delaware compelled to Return

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21 Administration of Sir Thomas Gates.......................

22 Improvement in the Colony.....

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CONTENTS.

SECOND PERIOD, 1776-1815.

CONSOLIDATION AND STATESMANSHIP.

FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, TO THE

CLOSE OF THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND.

Immediate Results of the French Alliance........ 374 Difficulties to be Overcome........

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