The United States: From the Earliest Times to the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The United States: From the Earliest Times to the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

But our purpose in the series of works of which the present forms the initial volume is to trace the romance of colonization in special countries, and chiefly as that colonization has been effected by Eng land. No colonial empire was ever raised of such vast extent as that which acknowledges the sovereignty of Queen Victoria in this Diamond Jubilee year of grace. The great work of acquiring and build...