France and England in North America: Montcalm and Wolfe. 1884. 2 vLittle, Brown,, 1884 |
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... chief command.1 Under the hollow gayeties of the ruling class lay a great public distress , which broke at last into riot . Towards midwinter no flour was to be had in Montreal ; and both soldiers and people were required to accept a ...
... chief command.1 Under the hollow gayeties of the ruling class lay a great public distress , which broke at last into riot . Towards midwinter no flour was to be had in Montreal ; and both soldiers and people were required to accept a ...
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... chief loss falling on the In- dians ; who , to revenge themselves , murdered all the wounded and nearly all the prisoners , and tying Lieutenant Phillips and his men to trees , hacked them to pieces . Captain Pringle and Lieutenant ...
... chief loss falling on the In- dians ; who , to revenge themselves , murdered all the wounded and nearly all the prisoners , and tying Lieutenant Phillips and his men to trees , hacked them to pieces . Captain Pringle and Lieutenant ...
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Francis Parkman. chief sustenance was juniper - berries and the inner bark of trees . But their worst calamity was the helplessness of their guide . His brain wandered ; and while always insisting that he knew the coun- try well , he led ...
Francis Parkman. chief sustenance was juniper - berries and the inner bark of trees . But their worst calamity was the helplessness of their guide . His brain wandered ; and while always insisting that he knew the coun- try well , he led ...
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... chief . Several French officers dashed towards them at full speed , and reached them in time to save them from the clutches of the Indians , whose camps were near at hand . They were kindly treated , recovered from the effects of their ...
... chief . Several French officers dashed towards them at full speed , and reached them in time to save them from the clutches of the Indians , whose camps were near at hand . They were kindly treated , recovered from the effects of their ...
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Francis Parkman. wife of Major Péan , of whom Bigot was enamoured . A chief steward , cooks , servants , and other attend- ants , followed the party . The guests had been requested to send their portmanteaus to the Inten- dant's Palace ...
Francis Parkman. wife of Major Péan , of whom Bigot was enamoured . A chief steward , cooks , servants , and other attend- ants , followed the party . The guests had been requested to send their portmanteaus to the Inten- dant's Palace ...
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Side 408 - It is no exaggeration to say that three of the many victories of the Seven Years War determined for ages to come the destinies of mankind. With that of Rossbach began the re-creation of Germany; with that of Plassey the influence of Europe told for the first time since the days of Alexander on the nations of the East; with the triumph of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham began the history of the United States.
Side 308 - I am glad of it," was his calm reply. He then asked how long he might survive, and was told that he had not many hours remaining. "So much the better," he said; "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.
Side 297 - Then, turning on his side, he murmured, "Now, God be praised, I will die in peace!" and in a few moments his gallant soul had fled. Montcalm, still on horseback, was borne with the tide of fugitives towards the town. As he approached the walls a shot passed through his body. He kept his seat; two soldiers supported him, one on each side, and led his horse through the St. Louis Gate. On the open space within, among the excited crowd, were several women, drawn, no doubt, by eagerness to know the result...
Side 296 - Louisbourg grenadiers. A shot shattered his wrist. He wrapped his handkerchief about it and kept on. Another shot struck him, and he still advanced, when a third lodged in his breast. He staggered, and sat on the ground. Lieutenant Brown, of the grenadiers, one Henderson, a volunteer in the same company, and a private soldier, aided by an officer of artillery who ran to join them, carried him in their arms to the rear. He begged them to lay him down. They did so, and asked if he would have a surgeon....
Side 262 - Portneuf, cure' of St. Joachim, placed himself at the head of thirty parishioners and took possession of a large stone house in the adjacent parish of Chateau Richer, where for a time he held the English at bay. At length he and his followers were drawn out into an ambush, where they were surrounded and killed ; and, being disguised as Indians, the rangers scalped them all.2 Most of the French writers of the time mention these barbarities without much comment, while Vaudreuil loudly denounces them....
Side 422 - When Mr. Vanbraam returned with the French proposals, we were obliged to take the sense of them from his mouth; it rained so...
Side 286 - Gentlemen," he said, as his recital ended, "I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec." None were there to tell him that the hero is greater than the poet. As they neared their destination, the tide bore them in towards the shore, and the mighty wall of rock and forest towered in darkness on their left. The dead stillness was suddenly broken by the sharp Qui vive! of a French sentry, invisible in the thick gloom. France!
Side 280 - 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.
Side 253 - ... sometimes fanatical in their devotion to the forms of Romanism, they remained thorough savages in dress, habits, and character. They were the scourge of the New England borders, where they surprised and burned farmhouses and small hamlets, killed men, women, and children without distinction, carried others prisoners to their village, subjected them to the torture of " running the gantlet, " and compelled them to witness dances of triumph around the scalps of parents, children, and friends.
Side 270 - I found myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility.