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Pioneers the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings. E-book. Formato PDF Mary Johnston - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Elizabeth of England died in 1603. There came to the English throne James Stuart, King of Scot land, King now oi England and Scotland. In 1604! A treaty of peace ended the long war with Spain. Gone was the sixteenth century; here, though in childhood, was the seventeenth century. Now that the wars were over, old colonization schemes were revived in the English mind. Of the motives which in the first instance had prompted these schemes, some with the passing of time had become weaker, some remained quite as strong as before. Most Englishmen and women knew now that Spain had clay feet; and that Rome, though she might threaten, could not always perform what she threatened. To abase the pride of Spain.
Cease Firing. E-book. Formato PDF Mary Johnston - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
It had rained and rained. All the swamps were up, the bayous over?owing. The tiger, too, was out; now here, now there. That other tiger, War, was abroad, and he aided in breaking levees. On the Mississippi Side, on the Louisiana side, bottom lands were brim ming. Cottonwood, red gum, china trees, cypress and pine stood up, drenched and dismal, from amber Sheets and eddies, specked with foam. The clouds hung dark and low. There was a small, chill, mournful wind. The roads, trampled and scored by eighteen months Of war, were little, if any, better than no roads.