Citations:Guam

English citations of Guam

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• 1699, William Dampier, chapter X, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 290:

  But to proceed with our Voyage : The Iſland Guam or Guahon , (as the Native Indians pronounce it) is one of the Ladrone Iſlands, belongs to the Spaniards , who have a ſmall Fort with ſix Guns in it, with a Governour, and 20 or 30 Soldiers.

• 1728 [1721 March 17], William Betagh, A Voyage Round the World. Being an Account of a Remarkable Enterprize, Begun In the Year 1719, chiefly to cruiſe on the Spaniards in the great South Ocean. Relating the True hiſtorical Facts of that whole Affair: Teſtifyd by many imployd therein; and confirmd by Authorities from the Owners.‎^[1], London: T. Combes, →OCLC, page 151:

  We have an infirm ſhip's company, and but five months proviſion, which muſt ſerve us to China unleſs we get a ſupply at Guam.

• 1748, Richard Walter, A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. by George Anson, Eſq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majeſty's Ships, ſent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas.‎^[2], London: J. and P. Knapton, →OCLC, pages 337–338:

  There are uſually reckoned twelve of theſe Iſlands ; but it will appear, from the chart of the North part of the Pacific Ocean hereafter inſerted, that if the ſmall iſlets and rocks are counted in, then their whole number will amount to above twenty. They were formerly moſt of them well inhabited ; and, even not ſixty years ago, the three principal Iſlands, Guam, Rota, and Tinian together, are ſaid to have contained above fifty thouſand people : But ſince that time Tinian hath been entirely depopulated ; and only two or three hundred Indians have been left at Rota, to cultivate rice for the Iſland of Guam ; ſo that now no more than Guam can properly be ſaid to be inhabited. This Iſland of Guam is the only ſettlement of the Spaniards ; here they keep a governor and garriſon, and here the Manila ſhip generally touches for refreſhment, in her paſſage from Acapulco to the Philippines.

• 1834 [1756 November 4], Benjamin Franklin, “Observations in answer to the foregoing.”, in Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin‎^[3], volume II, Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, →OCLC, page 344, column 1:

  In the very long run from the west side of America to Guam, among the Philippine Islands, ships seldom have occasion to hand their sails, so equal and steady is the gale, and yet they make it in about 60 days, which could not be if the wind blew only in the afternoon.

• 1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China‎^[4], London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

  It had been the intention of the Navy Department to fortify Guam with a view to turning it into a first-class naval base. The fact that America has been willing to forgo this intention must be taken as evidence of a genuine desire to preserve the peace with Japan.

• 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Steady on Course: Vietnam 1963-1964”, in The Vantage Point‎^[5], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46:

  I could not forget the refusal of the House of Representatives in 1939 and 1940 to provide $5 million in funds for the strengthening of Guam, for fear of antagonizing the Japanese.

• 1990, Ronald Reagan, “Staying the Course”, in An American Life‎^[6], Pocket Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 369:

  We began our six-day visit to China in Beijing on a cloudy, overcast morning following another overnight stopover on Guam.

• 2022 May 12, Minnie Chan, “Satellite images ‘suggest China is practising missile strikes on targets in Taiwan and Guam’”, in South China Morning Post‎^[7], archived from the original on 12 May 2022:

  The Chinese military has refined its anti-ship missile training from striking large, carrier-sized targets to smaller ships and naval bases, according to recent satellite images.
  They show a training base in Xinjiang’s remote Taklamakan desert with the layout of mock-up ship moored in a naval base that resembles one in northeast Taiwan and other targets in Guam, according to a Taipei-based naval analyst.