The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1884-89

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History Company, 1886
 

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Seite 393 - In his memorials to the crown he dwelt with enthusiasm on the value of his own services, on the wealth and extent of the countries discovered, on the danger of encroachments from other nations if action were delayed; and he also declared that the occupation of Louisiane being accomplished, " we can effect there for the glory of our king very important conquests, both by sea and land; or, if peace should oblige us to delay the execution of them, we might, without giving any cause of complaint, make...
Seite 69 - The chief Alcalde besought us to tarry there, since by so doing we could be of eminent service to God and your Majesty; the deserted land was without tillage and everywhere badly wasted, the Indians were fleeing and concealing themselves in the thickets, unwilling to occupy their towns...
Seite 5 - Bacallaos (Newfoundland); for it is deemed certain that on that coast there is a strait which passes to the South Sea; and if it should be found, according to a certain map which I have of the region of the archipelago discovered by Magellan by order of your Highness, it seems that it would come out very near there; and if it should please God that the said strait be found there, the voyage from...
Seite 393 - We have more at heart than the discovery of this country, through which it is probable a road may be found to penetrate to Mexico...
Seite 147 - Bolanos lived to visit the port again with Vizcaino in 1603, and his statement is all there is extant on the voyage. It is not impossible that some additional results of the expedition were intentionally kept secret by the government; at any rate no record has ever come to light in the...
Seite 275 - ... the padre; and, approaching the sea, he found a port, as well as an island to which most of the Seri had escaped in balsas, leaving eight of their number, who were arrested and turned over to the priest.4 This is the first record of actual invasion of Seriland by Caucasians. According to Bancroft, it "may be deemed the beginning of the Seri wars which so long desolated the province".5 The next noteworthy episode occurred when Sergeant Escalante, who had returned to Tuape and Santa Magdalena (de...
Seite xli - Richardson (William H. ), Journal of a private soldier in the campaign of New and Old Mexico. Baltimore, 1848.
Seite 375 - Spanish rule. The feeble remnants of once powerful nations made no further organized resistance. The western pueblos were yet independent; but with the exception of Moqui they renewed their allegiance before the end of the century. Coahuila in the seventeenth century was the region north of latitude 26°, between the Bolson de Mapimi on the west and the Rio Grande del Norte on the east and north.
Seite 645 - July 1757, but it was not until March of the following year that the blow was struck.
Seite xx - Arizpe (Miguel Ramos de), Memorial on the natural, political, and civil state of the Province of Coahuila. Philadelphia, 1814. Arlegui (Joseph), Chr6nica de la Provincia de S.

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