While preparing for Dodsley 'An Account of the European Settlements in America,' he was led by his researches to suggest a periodical which should chronicle the important literary, political, and social facts of the year.
They policed the vast plains and, with endless patience and cool courage, held at peace the thousands of Indians who might have swept the defenceless settlements with destruction.
Next to the Indians in numbers were scattered settlements of half-breeds, who lived by the chase; no less warlike although more tractable than the Indian.
Then a few white and half-breed traders and missionaries; and last and best, the commencement of white settlements at Prince Albert and Edmonton.
Buffalo-hunters from the white and half-breed settlements by the Red and the Assiniboine Rivers only ventured westward in large companies heavily armed.
Wise man was Butler who saw that settlers must be secured to pour into this vast country and make it the granary of the Empire, and that a force movable enough to be readily at the call of scattered settlements would be absolutely necessary.
He came at the suggestion of the Government, which had at last comprehended the value of the German settlements on the Mohawk, and further up toward the lake, and had formed the earnest purpose to advance them as far as possible.
It is true that his aggressions on the Spanish settlements were originally founded on a vague notion of reprisals, equally irreconcilable to public law and private equity.
A still more unfortunate result awaited an expedition of greater consequence, which sailed during the same year, under Hawkins and Drake, against the settlements of Spanish America.
But not long after he embarked for Ireland, in which country he remained without public employment till the spring of 1592, when he undertook an expedition against the Spanish settlements in South America.
Let me tell you that settlements have been broken up and deserted on account of the persecution experienced from these little insects!
It was they who several times destroyed thesettlements and mission stations.
In all the Portuguese settlements the "assai" is a favourite drink, and is taken along with cassava bread, as we use milk or coffee.
About the "Montana" very little is known in the settlements of the Andes.
There was no fear of his encountering a white face upon the unfrequented path he had chosen, though had he gone by some other route he might have found white settlementsextending farther to the eastward.
Concerning the puma, I have never heard of any man being attacked near the settlements by this animal, and, indeed, authentic instances of its acting as the assailant are very few and far between.
Quite close to the settlements a couple of hundred might be secured by two guns in a day, and during the migration a far greater number.
We had a number of Welsh with us on the transport, who were on their way home to the Welsh settlements of Trelew, Gaiman and Rawson.
Even the beasts belonging to the farmers lead a wandering life, and at a short distance from the settlements are shy of the approach of man, and have to be rounded up by mounted Gauchos.
Rugs of this kind and bunches of ostrich feathers form the staple commodities which they offer at the settlements for sale.
The Tehuelches proper appear to have been fairly prosperous and numerous in his day, but even then he says, speaking of them: "Supplies of rum procured in trade at the settlements .
The coast settlements are similar to such places all the world over: storekeepers, men who run wine-shops, traders, and the usual sort of folk who form the bulk of dwellers on the edge of civilisation.
Before we left, reliable news came up from the settlements with some belated Christmas and other papers.
He was going to Sam Houston, famous throughout all the Southwest, and Houston was at one of the little new settlements some distance away.
Ned and his companions spent a week on the river and when they rode south again they took with them nearly a hundred volunteers for the attack on San Antonio, the last draft that the little settlements could furnish.
With good horses beneath them they expected to reach the Brazos settlements the next day unless some new danger intervened.
He knew the direction in which the settlements lay, and he could go on with his mission.
They left the little cabin, exactly as they had found it, and then rode at an increased pace toward the north and the east, making for the settlements on the Brazos.
They began now to see signs of settlements in the river bottoms where the forests grew.
They were gathered now in hundreds from all the Texas settlementsto defend the homes that they had built in the wilderness, and Cos with his Mexican army did not dare to come out of San Antonio.
He was bred to commerce, and sent very early to one of our settlements in the East, where his guardian had a correspondent.
One would almost presume that the term had its origin in the effect which such settlements usually produce upon the kinsmen of those by whom they are executed.
Spaniards on English ships and settlements in the West Indies, the dates all duly given, with the names of the ships and their captains, and the values of the cargoes.
Though the danger grows less all the while as the settlements increase, it is still true that the Indians are ever a menace, and I fear they are over watchful of us.
I doubt not we shall live to see a city in place of yon village," he said; "more ships seek its port daily, and there are settlements along the whole length of the bay.
There are settlements along the way, and time passes.
An accurate and fascinating account of the first settlements and the 13 colonies.
Settlements in the Mississippi Valley, The French and Indian Wars, etc.
They did not face the English in the field, but hovered round the border, and, with sudden surprise, overwhelmed detached posts and settlements in a horrible destruction.
In most cases, the soil of the new settlements was granted to powerful individuals or companies of merchants, and by them made over in detail to the actual emigrants for certain considerations.
The settlements along the coast below that important stronghold were sufficiently guarded to render a hostile debarkation difficult and dangerous.
Callières assembled the hardy militia of Three Rivers and the adjoining settlements to re-enforce him with all possible dispatch.
The Roman settlements in Italy raised upon the ruins of a subjugated nation a fabric of civilization and power that can never be forgotten.
At those settlements the trade went briskly on, and many of the natives became domesticated among their white neighbors.
They then retraced their steps, strengthening the settlements on the River St. Lawrence as they passed.
Thus the Swedish settlements passed into the hands of the English at the same time as those of the Dutch.
The first schism that disturbed the peace of the settlements was raised by Roger Williams at Salem.
They were confirmed in their conjecture by considering that several settlements in Canada lie under the same latitude with those parts of Chinese Tartary and China where the true ginseng grows wild.
He therefore organized three expeditions to invade the British settlements by different avenues.
At that time the transportation of criminals to penal settlements was very largely resorted to, and the state of convict ships was as bad as that of the worst prisons in England.
About half a mile off, on the high road between Stratford and Ilford, there was a colony of Irish, dirty and miserable, as such settlements in England usually are.
Vincennes is one of the most ancient settlements of the French, founded in 1736.
Many old buildings are still to be seen, remaining from the time in which so many French settlements were founded in the west.
With the first settlementsof colonists on this continent politico-economic problems appeared.
Marx and his followers likewise had a contempt for the communistic experiments, or settlements and colonies, which by the scores had been started and had failed, bringing discredit upon all communistic proposals.
The two metals continued to be used side by side in Europe and in the new settlements in America, silver for the smaller and gold for many of the larger transactions.
Settlements and fidei commissa are limited in many countries, because of the recognized social evils resulting from the tying up of estates for generations.
These persons conducted their settlements with so little judgment, that they soon converted all the neighbouring Indians into enemies.
A squadron commanded by admiral Vernon was detached to the West Indies, with instructions to act offensively; and general Oglethorpe was ordered to annoy the settlements in Florida.
The fort on Connecticut river, however, did not protect that frontier against the people of New England, who continued to extend their settlements towards the south.
After receiving this addition to its numbers, the colony again extended itself up James river; and several new settlements were made.
The settlements of the French, stretching from north to south, necessarily interfered with those of the English.
At peace with the Indians, they had extended their settlements to the Rappahannock and to the Potowmac.
That they make new settlements on such purchases by granting lands in the king's name, reserving a quit rent to the crown, for the use of the general treasury.
The English government seems, at all times, to have questioned the right of the Dutch to their settlements in America; and never to have formally relinquished its claim to that territory.
In the spring and summer of 1689, several settlements and forts in New Hampshire and Maine, were successfully attacked by the Indians; who, wherever they were victorious, perpetrated their usual cruelties.
Many new settlements were now made on the James and York rivers; and the planters, being supplied with wives and servants, began to be more content, and to take more pleasure in cultivating their lands.
These early settlements had been movements authorized by their governments, encouraged by the parent state for its own purposes; but now there began a civilization very different in character.
Claiming possession of the river he had found, they built settlements at Albany and New York.
A patent obtained from the English Parliament by Roger Williams for the united government of the settlements of Rhode Island.
Heathen settlements in Ireland were only gradually converted, as that of Dublin in 943.
The intended colony was viewed with distrust by the elder settlements for the theoretical character of the plan, and its entire opposition to the then prevailing notions of penal labour.
The sacrifice of this colony will not, therefore, exempt the neighbouring settlements from any portion of the mischief incident to direct transportation.
Their views of church government, and of ritual observances, were the chief points of dissonance; but in scattered settlements of recent formation these distinctions were rather matters of recollection than of practice.
The church of England was then regarded by statesmen as the religion of the empire, and to clergymen of the episcopal persuasion the spiritual interests of the settlements were confided.
Navigations of the Haytians and Cubans, settlements of the Lucayas islands, Jamaica, and probably some parts of Florida: mutual trade with Cuba and the continent.
There are many places called Tula, all over the earth, indicating settlements of Atlantes.
I was sorry that the plank road was finished only to this place; but we had fine settlements all the way.
Of course he was making for the cattle ranges and settlements in Nebraska.
It must have meant "bad medicine" for the Sioux, for when morning came all the bands that had been so confidently raiding the trails through the settlements found themselves compelled to seek the shelter of their reservations.
Blunt could not suppress a shudder as he thought of the terrible risk the boy had run in his mad break for the settlements beyond the Platte.
Of course George might probably squander all that he could squander; but that might be made right by settlementsand entails.
The redemptioner, who was carried off to the British settlements in America, did in the end improve his economic condition, and his descendants, like those of the free immigrants, now form the population of the country.
During the Revolutionary War, no love was lost between the rigid, race-conscious Englishman and the despised red-skin, yet both joined hands to scalp Americans in the lonely settlements along our frontier.
This line of settlements formed the frontier or line of outposts of civilization.
Others followed their religious teachers into Canada, and made settlements there.
All the white settlements along the Mohawk or Hudson were near the river, the uplands or clearings beyond the flats not being considered of much value.
Free, rich, protected by the Roman legions, these Greek settlements cultivated the arts and sciences with ardour, as well as carrying on the trade of the Mediterranean.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "settlements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
