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Title: History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, 1844-1917 James, James Alton, 1864-1962
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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LEMENT (1518 His landing occurred on Easter Sunday, orPascua Florida, March 27, 1513, and so henamed the country Florida. The place wasa few miles north of the present town ofSt. Augustine. Exploring the coast aroundthe southern extremity of the peninsula, hesailed among a group of islands, which hedesignated the Tortugas. Returning toPorto Rico, he was appointed governor ofthe new country. He made a second voy-age, was attacked by the natives and mor-tally wounded, and returned to Cuba to die.Juan de Grijalva explored the south coastof the Gulf of Mexico, from Yucatan towardthe Panuco. Interest attaches to this enter-prise mainly because the treasure whichGrijalva collected aroused the envy andgreed of the future conqueror of Mexico,Hernando Cortez. In 1518, Velasquez, governor of Cuba,sends Cortez westward, with eleven shipsand over six hundred men, for the purposeof exploration. He landed at Tabasco,thence proceeded to the Island of San Juande Ulua, nearly opposite Vera Cruz, where
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Hernando Cortes.From an old print. r 1518) EARL Y SPANISH AMERICA 7 3 he received messengers and gifts from theEmperor Montezuma. Ordered to leavethe country, he destroyed his ships andmarched directly upon the capital. Heseized Montezuma and held him as a host-age for the peaceable conduct of his sub-jects. The Mexicans took up arms, onlyto be defeated again and again by theSpaniards. Montezuma became a vassal ofthe Spanish crown, and covenanted to payannual tribute. Attempting to reconcflehis people to this agreement he was him-self assailed and wounded, and, refusing allnourishment, soon after died. With re-enforcements, Cortez completed the con-quest of the country, and Mexico became aprovince of Spain. Vasquez de Ayllon, one of the auditorsof the Island of Santo Domingo, sent twoships from that island to the Bahamas forIndians to be sold as slaves. Driven fromtheir course by the wind, they at lengthreached the shore of South Carolina, at themouth of the Wateree River, which theyn

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