English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery
Title | English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Monroe Bacon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Discoveries in geography |
ISBN |
English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery, Retold from Hakluyt
Title | English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery, Retold from Hakluyt PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Monroe Bacon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Discoveries in geography |
ISBN |
The Boy's Hakluyt
Title | The Boy's Hakluyt PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hakluyt |
Publisher | Alpha Edition |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2022-01-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9789355898142 |
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The Boy's Hakluyt
Title | The Boy's Hakluyt PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Monroe Bacon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Discoveries in geography |
ISBN |
The Boy's Hakluyt
Title | The Boy's Hakluyt PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hakluyt |
Publisher | Sagwan Press |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2015-08-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781298949356 |
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BOYS HAKLUYT ENGLISH VOYAGES O
Title | BOYS HAKLUYT ENGLISH VOYAGES O PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) 1844-191 Bacon |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2016-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781361175156 |
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English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery
Title | English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Monroe Bacon |
Publisher | Rarebooksclub.com |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781230065755 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...of his ships, stocked with provisions, to make the home voyage independently. Then with mutual exchange of good wishes Hawkins departed for his homeward voyage. The tragic end of the hapless Huguenot colony was not far off. When shortly after Hawkins's departure, Laudonniere and his people were about to embark on the ship bought from him, sails were descried of the long-looked-for French fleet approaching their port. These welcome ships brought out Ribault to take the command, with emigrants in families, implements of husbandry, domestic animals, and every supply for a well-equipped colony. New life and hope were instilled into the colony by the new comers. Then suddenly the terrible Pedro Menendez de Aviles burst upon them with an invading army of Spaniards and destroyed them with awful massacre, "Not as Frenchmen, but as Lutherans," as he proclaimed, only a few escaping, Laudonniere and Le Moyne, the artist of the colony (to whom we are indebted for the first drawings of American natives and scenes), among these, to tell the tale. And then, two years afterward, Menendez's act was avenged by the fiery soldier of Gascony, Dominic de Gourgues, with massacre of Spaniards in Florida, "Not," as he in turn proclaimed, "as unto Spaniards but as unto Traitors, Robbers and Murderers." All this as told in the accounts of Laudonniere and others v reproduced by Hakluyt, constitutes one of the saddest and bloodiest chapters in early American history. Hawkins's return voyage was tempestuous. Contrary winds beset the fleet and so prolonged the passage that their provisions ran short. Relief was had, however, on the banks of Newfoundland by a large take of cod; and farther along when two French ships...