The Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of FrontenacGlasgow, Brook, 1915 - 167 páginas |
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... duties were to create educational institutions , to shape ecclesiastical policy , and to represent the Church in all its dealings with the government . Many of the problems which confronted Laval had their origin in special and rather ...
... duties were to create educational institutions , to shape ecclesiastical policy , and to represent the Church in all its dealings with the government . Many of the problems which confronted Laval had their origin in special and rather ...
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... duty . In later years the problem of knowledge assumed larger proportions , but during the period of Frontenac the chief need of Canada was heroism . Possessing this virtue abundantly , Canadians lost no time in lamentations over 1 For ...
... duty . In later years the problem of knowledge assumed larger proportions , but during the period of Frontenac the chief need of Canada was heroism . Possessing this virtue abundantly , Canadians lost no time in lamentations over 1 For ...
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... duty of the hour was such as to exclude all remoter vistas . When called on to defend his hearth and to battle for his race , the Canadian was ready . CHAPTER II LOUIS DE BUADE , COMte de frONTENAC His 16 THE FIGHTING GOVERNOR.
... duty of the hour was such as to exclude all remoter vistas . When called on to defend his hearth and to battle for his race , the Canadian was ready . CHAPTER II LOUIS DE BUADE , COMte de frONTENAC His 16 THE FIGHTING GOVERNOR.
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... duty . His qualifications were such as are of use at a post of danger . His time came in 1669. At the beginning of that year he was singled out by Turenne for a feat of daring which placed him before the eyes of all Europe . A contest ...
... duty . His qualifications were such as are of use at a post of danger . His time came in 1669. At the beginning of that year he was singled out by Turenne for a feat of daring which placed him before the eyes of all Europe . A contest ...
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... duties with the courage which is born of optimism . A natural fortress like Quebec could not fail to awaken the enthusiasm of a soldier . The settlement itself was small , but Frontenac re- ported that its situation could not be more ...
... duties with the courage which is born of optimism . A natural fortress like Quebec could not fail to awaken the enthusiasm of a soldier . The settlement itself was small , but Frontenac re- ported that its situation could not be more ...
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Página 98 - I, and the warriors here present, are come to assure you that the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas and Mohawks are yet alive. I thank you in their name, for bringing back into their country the calumet which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you that you left under ground that murdering hatchet that has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Página 124 - Majesties' subjects of New England, without provocation on their part, hath put them under the necessity of this expedition for their own security and satisfaction. And although the cruelties and barbarities used against them by the French and Indians might, upon the present opportunity, prompt unto a severe revenge...
Página 125 - Majesties' service and the subjects' security. Which, if you refuse forthwith to do, I am come provided, and am resolved, by the help of God, in whom I trust, by force of arms to revenge all wrongs and injuries offered, and bring you under subjection to the Crown of England, and, when too late, make you wish you had accepted of the favour tendered. "Your answer positive in an hour returned by your own trumpet, with the return of mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue.
Página 124 - King's and other stores, unimbezzled, with a seasonable deliver}' of all captives; together with a surrender of all your persons and estates to my dispose: upon the doing whereof, you may expect mercy from me, as a Christian, according to what shall be found for their Majesties' service and the subjects
Página 98 - I honour you, and all the warriors that accompany me do the same. Your interpreter has made an end of his discourse, and now I come to begin mine. My voice glides to your ear. Pray listen to my words.
Página 118 - To the New England of old he was the abhorred chief of Popish malignants and murdering savages. The New England of to-day will be more just to the brave defender of his country and his faith. In May, 1660, a party of French Algonquins captured a Wolf, or Mohegan, Indian, naturalized among the Iroquois, brought him to Quebec, and burned him there with their usual atrocity of torture. A modern Catholic writer says that the Jesuits could not save him; but this is not so. Their influence over...
Página 98 - I must tell you, Onnontio, I am not asleep ; my eyes are open, and the sun that vouchsafes the light gives me a clear view of a great captain at the head of a troop of soldiers who speaks as if he were asleep. He pretends that he does not approach to this lake with any other view than to smoke with the...
Página 99 - have a power to go where we please, to conduct ' who we will to the places we resort to, and to buy ' and sell where we think fit. If your Allies are...
Página 98 - This certainly was your thought ; and it could be nothing else but the curiosity of seeing a burnt or drowned country that moved you to undertake a journey hither. But now you have an opportunity of being undeceived, for I and my warlike retinue come to assure you that the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas and Mohawks are not yet destroyed.
Página 99 - Mohawks say, that when they buried the hatchet at Cataracuoy, in the presence of your predecessor, in the very centre of the fort, and planted the tree of peace in the same place, it was then agreed, that the fort should be used as a place of rendezvous for merchants, and not as a refuge for soldiers.
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The Fight for Canada: Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism David Orchard Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |