Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming, of Geographic Features of Northwestern America (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming, of Geographic Features of Northwestern America The geography of the Puget Sound region was probably not Very familiar to the members of Congress in 1853, when the bill was up for creating the Territory of Columbia. A motion was warmly welcomed to change the name to the Territory of Washington, and thus was the name of the com mander-in chief of the Continental Army placed over a host of names of those who had been ...
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Excerpt from Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming, of Geographic Features of Northwestern America The geography of the Puget Sound region was probably not Very familiar to the members of Congress in 1853, when the bill was up for creating the Territory of Columbia. A motion was warmly welcomed to change the name to the Territory of Washington, and thus was the name of the com mander-in chief of the Continental Army placed over a host of names of those who had been pitted against him on land and sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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