The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . d, Charles I;Poland, Casimir; Denmark and Norway, Frederick III; Sweden, QueenChristina; Bohemia, Ferdinand IV; Hungary, Ferdinand IV. ^3*a Sachsse, Ursprung und Wesen des Pietismus Wiesbaden, 1884. Decline of the Empire. 131 mercial supremacy had been gradually wrested fromthem, fi-rst by the Italians, then by Spain, and laterby Holland and Engla
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . d, Charles I;Poland, Casimir; Denmark and Norway, Frederick III; Sweden, QueenChristina; Bohemia, Ferdinand IV; Hungary, Ferdinand IV. ^3*a Sachsse, Ursprung und Wesen des Pietismus Wiesbaden, 1884. Decline of the Empire. 131 mercial supremacy had been gradually wrested fromthem, fi-rst by the Italians, then by Spain, and laterby Holland and England. Thus was Germany cutoff from sharing in the riches of the newly discoveredregions, or extending her power and influence bycolonization. Nor would it have been possible for Germany un-der the then existing conditions to aspire to colonialor foreign possessions, for she had by no means beenable to maintain her own borders. Holland and Sw^eden had long since recognized theimportance of foreign extension, which policy re-sulted in the establishment of West India compan-ies, under whose auspices attempts at settlementwere made upon the shores of the Hudson and theDelaware, movements in which we again find Ger-man blood prominently
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