History of the United States - from 1492 to 1872 (1880) (14580429109)

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Title: History of the United States : from 1492 to 1872
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel,1821-1898
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Publisher: Boston : W. Ware
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library



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orida, the latterprovince embracing the French cessions east of the Missis-sippi. Twenty years after, the Floridas reverted to Spam,to be again separated from it at a later period. To make some amends to Spain for her losses inLou^iana attempting the rescue of France, the latter king-andCaii- (Jqqj gave up her colony of Louisiana. To this fornia. . , • , we shall revert. At nearly the same time that theSpaniards took possession of their acquisition in the east,they extended their settlements in the west by establishingmissions at San Diego and Monterey, California, (1769.) But the Spanish wars, so far as our country wasof the concerned, were over. They had never arisen, ex- SpaniSh ^gp^. Jj^ ^;^g ^^^^ ^f jj^g ;^g;. I^pj^f yyr^y fj^jjj gnV wars. ^ ^ ^ _ _ • consideration of American interests. Nor had theycalled forth any development of American energies eitherin crowded battles or extended campaigns. But they hadcontinued, if we date from the first encounters, for nearlya century.
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FRENCH CLAIMjS CHAPTER VI. French Possessions. French The great rival of the English race upon our^^^- soil reappears. It is time to turn back beyondSpanish, Dutch, and Lidian wars, nay, beyond the growthof the EngUsh colonies, to trace the progress of the Frenchin America. Ko other nation, it will be found, not eventhe English, asserted claims or projected achievements ofequal vastness. New We left the French the masters of New France France. — ^ name of vague extension originally, but subse-quently confined, as will be remembered, to Acatlie andCanada. Acadie being itself shorn of its original dimen-sions, the province of Canada remained the chief divisionof New France.„ , The French, like the Enorlish colonies, were not System o of gov- always under the immediate government of theernmen . j^^^j^i^gj. country. An intermediate authority, vestedin the Company of New France, prevailed for thirty-fiveyears, (1627-62.) For twelve years more, a French WestIndia Company was commissione