Westward Expansion: A History of the American FrontierMacmillan, 1949 - 873 pages |
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Page 118
... peace assured in western Georgia , Oglethorpe was free to march an army against Florida . One by one the towns of that Spanish domain capitulated during the spring of 1740 , until only the stout fort at St. Augustine held out . A ...
... peace assured in western Georgia , Oglethorpe was free to march an army against Florida . One by one the towns of that Spanish domain capitulated during the spring of 1740 , until only the stout fort at St. Augustine held out . A ...
Page 191
... peace treaty had been signed . Not since 1779 had American fortunes in the West been at lower ebb . Kentucky was still theirs , but the Indians were all in the enemy's ranks , Detroit and Mackinac were British - held , and even the ...
... peace treaty had been signed . Not since 1779 had American fortunes in the West been at lower ebb . Kentucky was still theirs , but the Indians were all in the enemy's ranks , Detroit and Mackinac were British - held , and even the ...
Page 779
... Peace . A thorough treatment is Paul C. Phillips , The West in the Diplomacy of the Ameri- can Revolution ( Urbana , 1913 ) , and a briefer account is Samuel F. Bemis , The Diplomacy of the American Revolution ( New York , 1935 ) . The ...
... Peace . A thorough treatment is Paul C. Phillips , The West in the Diplomacy of the Ameri- can Revolution ( Urbana , 1913 ) , and a briefer account is Samuel F. Bemis , The Diplomacy of the American Revolution ( New York , 1935 ) . The ...
Contents
SECTION I | 13 |
Europes First Frontier 14921615 | 15 |
The Spanish in Eastern North America 15131590 | 19 |
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