The Opening of the Mississippi: A Struggle for Supremacy in the American InteriorMacmillan, 1904 - 670 sider The book is primarily the history of the discovery, exploration, and competition for navigation rights and accesses to the Mississippi River prior to the War of 1812. |
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Adams Alleghanies American State Papers Annals of Congress Bienville British canoes ceded cession Claiborne claim Collections of Louisiana colonists colony command course Critical History declared Discovery and Exploration England English established expedition France French Frenchmen Frontenac Gayarré Godoy governor Gulf Gulf of Mexico Hennepin Historical Collections History of Louisiana Iberville Ibid Illinois Illinois country Indians inhabitants Iroquois Jefferson Jesuit Relations John Jay Journals of Congress Kaskaskia King Lake Lake Superior lands Laussat letter Livingston Louis Louisiana Purchase Madison Madrid Margry Marquette ment miles minister Mississippi Valley Monroe mouth Napoleon Narrative and Critical Natchez nation navigation negotiation Northwest Ohio Orleans Paris Parkman party peace Pensacola possession President purchase region river Salle Salle's Secret Journals secure settlement Shea Soto Spain Spaniards Spanish Talleyrand territory Thwaites tion Tonty trade treaty United vessels Virginia voyage West Florida western westward Winsor
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Side 391 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Side 351 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.
Side 553 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted, as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Side 397 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Side 283 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Side 546 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Side 492 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Side 343 - Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.