Ferdinand de Soto: The Discoverer of the MississippiDodd, Mead [1873], 1873 - 351 páginas A history of the expeditions and military conquests of Hernando de Soto in South America, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. |
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... band of cavaliers . It was poetry put in ac- tion . It was the knight - errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness . Indeed the personal adventures , the feats of individual prowess , the picturesque ...
... band of cavaliers . It was poetry put in ac- tion . It was the knight - errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness . Indeed the personal adventures , the feats of individual prowess , the picturesque ...
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... band of dragoons , thirty or forty in number , under the leadership of De Soto . His steel - clad warriors were well mounted , with hous ings which greatly protected their steeds from the arrows of the natives . The wary Indian ...
... band of dragoons , thirty or forty in number , under the leadership of De Soto . His steel - clad warriors were well mounted , with hous ings which greatly protected their steeds from the arrows of the natives . The wary Indian ...
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... band . It so happened that De Soto , with his dragoons , had left Pizarro's band , and in a military incur- sion into the country , was approaching the bay where Espinosa had landed his troops . Suddenly the clamor THE SPANISH COLONY . 29.
... band . It so happened that De Soto , with his dragoons , had left Pizarro's band , and in a military incur- sion into the country , was approaching the bay where Espinosa had landed his troops . Suddenly the clamor THE SPANISH COLONY . 29.
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... band put spurs to their hc : ses and hastened to the scene of action . Very great difficulties impeded their progress . The rugged ground , encumbered by rocks and broken by ravines , was almost impassable for horsemen . But the energy ...
... band put spurs to their hc : ses and hastened to the scene of action . Very great difficulties impeded their progress . The rugged ground , encumbered by rocks and broken by ravines , was almost impassable for horsemen . But the energy ...
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... bands were coming from all directions to reinforce the na- tive troops . The sun was going down and night was approaching . All hearts were oppressed with the greatest anxiety . Just then Pizarro , with his two hundred men , made his ...
... bands were coming from all directions to reinforce the na- tive troops . The sun was going down and night was approaching . All hearts were oppressed with the greatest anxiety . Just then Pizarro , with his two hundred men , made his ...
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Ferdinand de Soto: The Discoverer of the Mississippi John Stevens Cabot Abbott Visualização integral - 1876 |
Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi: American Pioneers and ... John S. C. Abbott Pré-visualização limitada - 2022 |
Ferdinand de Soto. the Discoverer of the Mississippi John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott Pré-visualização indisponível - 2012 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
accompanied advance adventurers Añasco Anhayea approach armed armor arrows assailants Attahuallapa band banks battle beautiful brigantines Cacique called canoes Capaha captain captive Casquin cavaliers Chickasaw chief chieftain Chisca Codro colony command Coosa courier crossed Cuba Cuzco Darien death Don Pedro dragoons encampment entered enterprise Espinosa expedition fifty fled Florida foes forest Francisco Pizarro friendship gold governor hand Hernando Pizarro horsemen horses hostile hundred iards immediately Inca Indians inhabitants Isabella javelins king of Spain land large number miles military Mississippi natives Nicaragua night noble Panama passed Patofa peace perished Peru Peruvians Pizarro plain plunder princess province reached received region replied retreat returned river rushed sabres savages seemed seized sent shore slain soldiers soon Soto Soto's Spain Spaniards Spanish army Spanish camp spirit steel-clad sword thousand tion town treach troops Tumbez Tuscaloosa Ucita Uracca village Vitachuco war horses warriors whole army wounded
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Página 99 - Nobles and commoners, all were trampled down under the fierce charge of the cavalry, who dealt their blows right and left, without sparing; while their swords, flashing through the thick gloom, carried dismay into the hearts of the wretched natives, who now, for the first time, saw the horse and his rider in all their terrors. They made no resistance, — as, indeed, they had no weapons with which to make it. Every avenue to escape was closed, for the entrance to the square was choked...
Página 100 - ... rider in all their terrors. They made no resistance, as, indeed, they had no weapons with which to make it. Every avenue to escape was closed, for the entrance to the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly; and such was the agony of the survivors under the terrible pressure of their assailants that a large body of Indians, by their convulsive struggles, burst through the wall of stone and dried clay which formed part of the boundary of the plaza!
Página 99 - ... and threw themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated like thunder from the surrounding buildings, and blinded by the smoke which rolled in sulphurous volumes along the square, were seized with a panic.
Página iii - It was poetry put in action ; it was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness ; indeed, the personal adventures, the feats of individual prowess, the picturesque descriptions of steel-clad cavaliers, with lance and helm and prancing steed, glittering through the wildernesses of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and the prairies of the Far "West, would seem to us mere fictions of romance, did they not come to us recorded in matter of fact narratives of contemporaries,...
Página 99 - Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired from the fortress. Then, springing into the square, the Spanish captain and his followers shouted the old war-cry of
Página 99 - It was answered by the battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as, rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which they were concealed, they poured into the plaza, horse and foot, each in his own dark column, and threw themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated like thunder from the surrounding...
Página 169 - ... for I have sworn to maintain an unsparing conflict while one white man remains in my borders ; not openly in the battle-field, though even thus we fear not to meet you, but by stratagem, ambush, and midnight surprisal.
Página 314 - willing to show these heathens, that he listeneth to them that call to him in truth, sent down, in the middle of the ensuing night, a plenteous rain, to the great joy of the Indians." After many strange adventures, the invaders came to a village called Utiangue, it is supposed on the Arkansas, where, on account of the abundance of fuel and provisions, they passed the winter in tolerable comfort By this time half of the command and nearly all the horses...
Página 342 - ... ever heard on the waters of the Mississippi. To conceal his death, his body was wrapped in a mantle, and, in the stillness of midnight, was silently sunk in the middle of the stream. The discoverer of the Mississippi slept beneath its waters. He had crossed a large part of the continent in search of gold, and found nothing so remarkable as his burialplace.
Página iii - Of all the enterprises undertaken in this spirit of daring adventure, none has surpassed for hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Hernando de Soto and his band of cavaliers.