CHAPTER I

TERRITORIAL CONCEPTS

EUROPEAN CONTESTS AFFECTING AMERICA AND A SUMMARY OF AMERICAN EXPANSION 1

By _Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D._, Professor of History in Harvard University. Author of “National Ideals Historically Traced” and Editor of “The American Nation.”

Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, in the history of Colonial America, between the Landing of Columbus, 1492, and Champlain’s Battle with the Iroquois, 1609.