A History of America in 100 Maps

EARLY SETTLEMENT AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 41 No name is more closely connected with the Virginia colony than that of Captain Jo ...

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EARLY SETTLEMENT AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 43 Early English attempts to settle the Chesapeake were risky affairs. The failures a ...

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EARLY SETTLEMENT AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 45 The early Jamestown settlers struggled to survive. But within a decade of its foun ...

46 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The map of “The North Part of America” by Henry Briggs on the previous page framed the hope ...

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50 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS It may seem odd to include a map of West Africa in a history of North America, but the conne ...

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52 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS We generally think of New York as an English settlement, but this overlooks its earlier Dutc ...

EARLY SETTLEMENT AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 53 With its selective detail and pictorial appearance, the map reveals little about t ...

54 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In June 1675 English settlers in Plymouth hanged three Wampanoag Indians who were suspected ...

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56 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS To pay off an old debt, in 1681 King Charles II made William Penn the sole proprietor of 45, ...

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58 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Upon his return to London in 1683, Penn used the Philadelphia map to advertise the colony in ...

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60 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Among the most important mapmakers of the late seventeenth century was a Franciscan friar in ...