The Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of FrontenacGlasgow, Brook, 1915 - 167 páginas |
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... king to rule over his people was proclaimed as loudly in the colony as in the motherland . It was inevitable that ... kings against rebellious nobles . The virtues and firmness of Louis IX F.G. 1 See The Great Intendant in this Series ...
... king to rule over his people was proclaimed as loudly in the colony as in the motherland . It was inevitable that ... kings against rebellious nobles . The virtues and firmness of Louis IX F.G. 1 See The Great Intendant in this Series ...
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... , were subject to the king in name only . But , with the growth of royal power , the dukes and counts steadily lost their territorial independ- ence and fell at last to the condition of courtiers 2 THE FIGHTING GOVERNOR.
... , were subject to the king in name only . But , with the growth of royal power , the dukes and counts steadily lost their territorial independ- ence and fell at last to the condition of courtiers 2 THE FIGHTING GOVERNOR.
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... king and dependent upon the favour of the king . Side by side with the governor stood the intendant , even more a king's man than the governor himself . So jealously did the Bourbons guard their despotism that the crown would not place ...
... king and dependent upon the favour of the king . Side by side with the governor stood the intendant , even more a king's man than the governor himself . So jealously did the Bourbons guard their despotism that the crown would not place ...
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... kings should speak and that subjects should obey . One direct consequence of a system so uncom- promisingly despotic ... king should refrain from invading the sphere of the clergy , though controversy often waxed fierce as to where the ...
... kings should speak and that subjects should obey . One direct consequence of a system so uncom- promisingly despotic ... king should refrain from invading the sphere of the clergy , though controversy often waxed fierce as to where the ...
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... king's dignity and the force of his arms . He was a noble , titled or untitled . It was the business of the governor ... king . Meanwhile each was a spy as well as a check upon the other . In Canada this arrange- ment worked even more ...
... king's dignity and the force of his arms . He was a noble , titled or untitled . It was the business of the governor ... king . Meanwhile each was a spy as well as a check upon the other . In Canada this arrange- ment worked even 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.
Referencias a este libro
The Fight for Canada: Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism David Orchard Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |