It was necessary to prevent him from Inundating the land and destroying the estates of the country gentlemen and the peasants.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
As things now are, the North Americans, English, French, and every other nation that wishes, openly usurped this privilege, by constantly Inundating the Islands with spirits and all kinds of effects, and it is very evident that this same abuse which authorizes the infraction of the above privilege, if in that light it could in any way be considered, totally exonerates the company from all obligations by them contracted under a different understanding.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
Meanwhile, that migration, heralded, as we have seen, just before the Revolution, by huntsmen and traders, meagre by reason of Indian hostility and the need of soldiers on the Atlantic side of the mountains till independence had been won, became appreciable at the end of the century and grew to an Inundating stream after the War of 1812 had made the Mississippi secure to the new republic beyond all question.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley