London Company
Americannoun
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The merchant princes who founded enterprises such as the London Company in the 17th century wanted to build bustling empires across the seas.
From Economist ● Apr. 27, 2016
Land had been the only wages of the London Company and he was not in Virginia to stake his claims.
From The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Pocahontas Wight Edmunds
The London Company sends to America a colony in search of gold.
From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Thus the London Company, from the very outset, found itself face to face with a difficulty which it could never surmount.
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
It is this which gave to the London Company its national character, and made its efforts to establish a colony across the Atlantic a crusade, a movement in which every Englishman was vitally concerned.
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
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