The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . inauspicious for several reasons. Itmeant the establishment of the strongest and richestof the European countries as a colonial poweron our borders. ... It meant the substitution ofthe restless and unpredictable ambition of NapoleonBonaparte in the Western Hemisphere for thesupine and dilatory policy of the cou
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . inauspicious for several reasons. Itmeant the establishment of the strongest and richestof the European countries as a colonial poweron our borders. ... It meant the substitution ofthe restless and unpredictable ambition of NapoleonBonaparte in the Western Hemisphere for thesupine and dilatory policy of the court of meant the control of the Mississippi, throughthe possession of New Orleans, by a power nomore friendly than Spain to the United States,but infinitely more able to paralyze our commerceon the great river. Since the few thousands ofpioneers had followed Boone, Sevier, Harrod, andRobertson across the mountains in the days of theConfederation, our. Western settlements had grownapace. The opening of the nineteenth century sawsome 50,000 farmers established in the rich bottomlands along the Ohio River and its northern tribu-taries. A hundred thousand immigrants had beatenthe buffalo paths and Indian trails of Tennesseeinto pack roads and begun clearing the hickory 8694. THi; IMTF^D STAIHS SHOWING ITS TFRRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE60VERNMENT To THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY —, vL Of FROM FRANCE BY PuRCHA€E 1 I803j THE NORTH WESTERN BOUNDARY Of LOUISIANA EXTENDED TD THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS THE 1 BOUNDARY WAS ADJUSTED WITH GREAT BR ITAI N (TREAT Y OF 18181 AND THE TEXAS, mWEST FLOmOA HAD BEE»1845 THE WESTERN BOIUIDARY GAOSDEN FROM MEXICO |I8S3. Lo»c/ifll({f :opvrijlit. C. A. Nichols Publishing Company. Maps prepared specunder direction of
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