Sentence examples for discovery settlement from inspiring English sources

The work is "The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke," not Kentucky; it was published in 1784, not 1793.

After all, if the British claim to Rockall is so well founded, surely the rituals of discovery – settlement, flag-waving – are all a bit beside the point?

Kentucky's reputation as a place uniquely suited to producing top racehorses because of its natural abundance can be traced as far back as 1784, when John Filson published The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke.

One of his most exciting books was a copy of John Filson's 1784 "The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke" of which there are only 12 known copies.

"Thus we behold Kentucke, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field," Boone later boasted in John Filson's "Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky," published in 1793.

In 1784, on his 50th birthday, historian John Filson published The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke, a book which included a chronicle of Boone's adventures.

Boone emerged as a legend in large part because of land speculator John Filson's "The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon", part of his book The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke.

Marler spent the next two years immersed in discovery and settlement negotiations.

The white characters in "A Mercy" come to life more readily than the black, and they less ambiguously dramatize America's discovery and settlement.

The saga of discovery and settlement of the Americas and the Caribbean, begun by Europeans in the late 15th century, lasted more than 200 years.

From the outset, the New World land grab by the European powers was founded on a breathtaking bit of fraud, the completely invented "right of discovery and settlement".