The History of Canada: Canada under French ruleRowsell & Hutchison, 1890 |
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... arms 408 Ordinances . 442 Attentions paid to de Vaudreuil 408 The courts • 442 Departure of French troops 409 Early legal proceedings French Rogers sent to Detroit . 409 rule · • 443 Establishment of British garrisons 409 French ...
... arms 408 Ordinances . 442 Attentions paid to de Vaudreuil 408 The courts • 442 Departure of French troops 409 Early legal proceedings French Rogers sent to Detroit . 409 rule · • 443 Establishment of British garrisons 409 French ...
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... arms as a secure cover to them and their habitations against the resentment of the French , " which left them to act in full security . " The demolition of the fortress , the seizure of the ships upon the lake , and the humiliating ...
... arms as a secure cover to them and their habitations against the resentment of the French , " which left them to act in full security . " The demolition of the fortress , the seizure of the ships upon the lake , and the humiliating ...
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... arms , which were wet , and started on their way homeward . They had scarcely marched half a mile , and were crossing a valley of fifteen rods breadth , when at close range they received a volley from a large force in ambush , which ...
... arms , which were wet , and started on their way homeward . They had scarcely marched half a mile , and were crossing a valley of fifteen rods breadth , when at close range they received a volley from a large force in ambush , which ...
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... arms , the detachment was forced to retire . An unsuccessful attempt was made to set fire to some of the bateaux . At break of day the French withdrew . Eyre sent out scouts to obtain informa- tion , they picked up some scaling ladders ...
... arms , the detachment was forced to retire . An unsuccessful attempt was made to set fire to some of the bateaux . At break of day the French withdrew . Eyre sent out scouts to obtain informa- tion , they picked up some scaling ladders ...
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... arms were directed towards it . On the night of the 20th the French force advanced . It may have been only a feint , but if the attack was seriously designed , they were received so warmly that it was abandoned ; the expedition ended in ...
... arms were directed towards it . On the night of the 20th the French force advanced . It may have been only a feint , but if the attack was seriously designed , they were received so warmly that it was abandoned ; the expedition ended in ...
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Abenakis Abercrombie Accordé advance Amherst Arch arms army arrived artillery attack attempt bateaux battalion batteries Beauport boats Bougainville British camp Canada Canadian cap Rouge capitulation captain carried colonel colony command commenced Crown Point defence despatched detachment duty enemy England expedition fire fleet Forbes force fort Duquesne fort Edward fort William Henry France French frigates garrison governor guns Haldimand Halifax hundred île île aux Coudres Indians intrenchments island killed king la petite guerre lake Champlain lake George lake Ontario land letter light infantry lord Loudoun Louisbourg miles militia Montcalm Montreal Murray Niagara obtained officers orders Oswego party Pitt Point Lévis position possession Pouchot prisoners province provisions qu'ils Quebec rangers received regiment remained retreat returned Rogers Royal Americans Saint Lawrence sent sera seront shew ships shore siege soldiers surrender taken Three Rivers Ticonderoga tion took Townshend troops Vaudreuil vessels William Henry Wolfe Wolfe's wounded wrote
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Side 284 - Thereupon the general rejoined: "Go, one of you, my lads, to Colonel Burton — ; tell him to march Webb's regiment with all speed down to Charles River, to cut off the retreat of the fugitives from the bridge.
Side 506 - Lawrence : and his Britannic Majesty consents to leave to the subjects of the Most Christian King the liberty of fishing in the gulph of St. Lawrence, on condition that the subjects of France do not exercise the said fishery but at the distance of three leagues from all the coasts...
Side 489 - I had but too much reason to expect your Majesty's displeasure. I did not come prepared for this exceeding goodness; pardon me, Sir, it overpowers, it oppresses me...
Side 505 - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Side 505 - Xlllth article of the treaty of Utrecht : which article is renewed and confirmed by the present treaty, (except what relates to the island of Cape Breton, as well as to the other islands and coasts in the mouth and in the gulph of St. Lawrence :) And his...
Side 264 - In this situation there is such a choice of difficulties that I own myself at a loss how to determine. The affairs of Great Britain I know require the most vigorous measures, but then the courage of a handful of brave men should be exerted only where there is some hope of a favourable event.
Side 272 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry. The soldiers must be attentive and obedient to , their officers and resolute in the execution of their duty.
Side 505 - The Island called Newfoundland, with the adjacent Islands, shall from this time forward belong of Right wholly to Britain, and to that end the Town and Fortress of Placentia, and whatever other Places in the said Island are in...
Side 485 - I am sorry for it, since otherwise he would have certainly compelled us to leave him [Has ruled us, may not I say, with a rod of iron !] But if he be resolved to assume the office of exclusively advising his Majesty and directing the operations of the War, to what purpose are we called to this Council ? When he talks of being responsible to the People, he talks the language of the House of Commons; forgets that, at this Board, he is only responsible to the King.
Side 507 - France ; provided that the navigation of the river Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole...