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Onwards to Cuba

We were then, according to the decision of the pilots, within a hundred twenty leagues of an island called Hispaniola, discovered by the admiral

As the smoke and flame rolled towards them before the wind, La Salle caused all the grass about the camp to be cut and carried away, and especially

We found that they were of a race called cannibals, the greater part or all of whom live on human flesh.Continuing America's Namesake's Second

We sailed so far south in the torrid zone that we found ourselves under the equinoctial line.Continuing America's Namesake's Second Voyage,our

by Jack Le MoineThese games have become a new medium for delivering knowledge of history. One can experiment with different strategies and thereby

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Thirteen Hundred Leagues SW of Cadiz.IntroductionIt was the claim of

Today's installment concludes France Takes Vietnam,our selection from Europe and the Far East by Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas published in

They poured troops into Tonkin and sent abroad for armaments and ships.Continuing France Acquires Vietnam,our selection from Europe and the Far

Galveston Bay and the mouth of the Mississippi differ little in latitude, though separated by about five and a half degrees of longitude.Previously