Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality. American. [Vol. 1]J.B.Lippincott Company, 1895 |
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... French had but recently built a group of wooden edifices on that precipitous height which is now crowned with the walls and the spires of Quebec . Not long had the whites been there before the native hunters of the forests came to gaze ...
... French had but recently built a group of wooden edifices on that precipitous height which is now crowned with the walls and the spires of Quebec . Not long had the whites been there before the native hunters of the forests came to gaze ...
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... French , and , with their aid , in two hours a strong defensive work , constructed of the felled trunks , was built , a half - circle in form , with the river at its two ends . This was the extent of their precautions . The returning ...
... French , and , with their aid , in two hours a strong defensive work , constructed of the felled trunks , was built , a half - circle in form , with the river at its two ends . This was the extent of their precautions . The returning ...
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... settlements approached its banks . This same liquid route in later days was to be traversed by warlike hosts both in the French and Indian and the Revolutionary Wars , and to be signalized by the cap- 4 * CHAMPLAIN AND THE IROQUOIS . 41.
... settlements approached its banks . This same liquid route in later days was to be traversed by warlike hosts both in the French and Indian and the Revolutionary Wars , and to be signalized by the cap- 4 * CHAMPLAIN AND THE IROQUOIS . 41.
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... to put him out of pain , and sent a bullet through his heart . Thus ended the first battle between whites and Indians on the soil of the northern United States , in a victory for which the French were to pay 44 HISTORICAL TALES .
... to put him out of pain , and sent a bullet through his heart . Thus ended the first battle between whites and Indians on the soil of the northern United States , in a victory for which the French were to pay 44 HISTORICAL TALES .
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... French were to pay dearly in future days , at the hands of their now vanquished foes . With the dawn of the next day the victors began their retreat . A few days of rapid paddling brought them to the Richelieu . Here they separated ...
... French were to pay dearly in future days , at the hands of their now vanquished foes . With the dawn of the next day the victors began their retreat . A few days of rapid paddling brought them to the Richelieu . Here they separated ...
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Página 94 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 232 - Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads,— The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds.
Página 95 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 95 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 231 - We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little...
Página 88 - Drum, drum, I say,' and turning to his excellency, said, 'If I am interrupted again I will make the sun shine through you in a moment.
Página 94 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.
Página 258 - Well, Captain, should you hear of the telegraph one of these days as the wonder of the world, remember the discovery was made on board the good ship Sully.
Página 95 - Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market...
Página 100 - Fathers, you, in former days, set a silver basin before us, wherein there was the leg of a beaver, and desired all the nations to come and eat of it, — to eat in peace and plenty, and not to be churlish to one another ; and that if any such person should be found to be a disturber, I here lay down by the edge of the dish a rod, which you must scourge them with ; and if your...