France and England in North America: Montcalm and Wolfe. 1884. 2 vLittle, Brown,, 1884 |
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... fire . The sixty dwellings of the settlement , with their barns and 1 Mémoires sur le Canada , 1749-1760 . 2 Dépêches de Vaudreuil , 1757 . outhouses , were all burned , forty or fifty of 6 [ 1757 . A WINTER OF DISCONTENT .
... fire . The sixty dwellings of the settlement , with their barns and 1 Mémoires sur le Canada , 1749-1760 . 2 Dépêches de Vaudreuil , 1757 . outhouses , were all burned , forty or fifty of 6 [ 1757 . A WINTER OF DISCONTENT .
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... fire that killed some of them and drove back the rest in confusion . Not suspecting that they were but an advance- guard , about half the rangers dashed in pursuit , and were soon met by the whole body of the enemy . The woods rang with ...
... fire that killed some of them and drove back the rest in confusion . Not suspecting that they were but an advance- guard , about half the rangers dashed in pursuit , and were soon met by the whole body of the enemy . The woods rang with ...
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... fire of broken sticks , they worked till morning to make a kind of substitute with forked branches , twigs , and a few leather strings . They had no hatchet to cut firewood , no blankets , no overcoats , and no food except part of a ...
... fire of broken sticks , they worked till morning to make a kind of substitute with forked branches , twigs , and a few leather strings . They had no hatchet to cut firewood , no blankets , no overcoats , and no food except part of a ...
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... fire - king . He had learned through secret agents that he was to be attacked , and that the wrath of Maria Theresa with her two allies , Pompadour and the Empress of Russia , was soon to wreak itself upon him . With his usual prompt ...
... fire - king . He had learned through secret agents that he was to be attacked , and that the wrath of Maria Theresa with her two allies , Pompadour and the Empress of Russia , was soon to wreak itself upon him . With his usual prompt ...
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... to crush him at Rossbach . He put them to shameful rout ; and then , instead of bon- fires and Te Deums , mocked at them in doggerel rhymes of amazing indecency . While he was beat- ing 1757. ] 39 FREDERIC OF PRUSSIA .
... to crush him at Rossbach . He put them to shameful rout ; and then , instead of bon- fires and Te Deums , mocked at them in doggerel rhymes of amazing indecency . While he was beat- ing 1757. ] 39 FREDERIC OF PRUSSIA .
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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.