Philadelphia Microform the Story of An American City
Philadelphia Microform the Story of An American City
George Edward Vickers
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This disaster had a discouraging effect on the purpose of Spain, and no further effort was made to establish the power of the crown in the new land until the time of the arrival of de Soto at Tampa Bay in fifteen hundred and thirty-nine. The tragic end of this chief and the failure of his expedition had left the Span- iards forty-seven years after the first expedition of Columbus without a permanent foothold anywhere on the soil of North America. In the meantime, while the Spanish ships were em...ployed carrying- gold and silver from Mexico and Peru to enrich the kingdom of Spain, a formidable rival was steadily acquiring a lodgment on the new con- tinent. The power and the interests of France demanded a share of its vast territory ; and in the year fifteen hundred and twenty-four Verrazani, a Florentine captain, sailed from the country of the French with an expedition consisting of four ships and several hundred men, with authority from Francis I. To explore in the strange land. Arriv- ing off the shore of Florida, he proceeded in a leisurely way to famil- iarize himself with the coast of all the country northward.
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