3 résultats pour "milford"
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Peter Pond
1740-fin XVIIIe
Peter Pond naquit à Milford, dans le Connecticut, le 18 janvier 1740.
commerce des fourrures entre le Nord-Ouest et Montréal, et il jeta les bases nécessaires à la réalisation des voyages de Mackenzie en 1789 et 1793. La contribution de Pond à la connaissance géographique de l'Amérique du Nord a été longtemps méconnue du fait de son manque d'instruction. La relation écrite qu'il nous a laissée a été publiée longtemps après sa mort et sans subir de révision. Elle ne couvre d'ailleurs que le début de sa biographie, qui en est la partie la moins significative. Son œ...
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Kansas - geography.
at the adjoining cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Its chief headstreams are the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, which join to form the KansasRiver at Junction City. Each of the headstreams has numerous tributaries. The Kansas River proper is only 270 km (170 mi) long, but the Smoky Hill River has a lengthof 870 km (540 mi), and the Republican River has a length of 720 km (450 mi). The main tributary flowing into the Kansas River is the Big Blue River. The Arkansas Rive...
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Kansas - USA History.
at the adjoining cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Its chief headstreams are the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, which join to form the KansasRiver at Junction City. Each of the headstreams has numerous tributaries. The Kansas River proper is only 270 km (170 mi) long, but the Smoky Hill River has a lengthof 870 km (540 mi), and the Republican River has a length of 720 km (450 mi). The main tributary flowing into the Kansas River is the Big Blue River. The Arkansas Rive...