Francis Parkman: France and England in North America Vol. 2 (LOA #12): Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV / A Half-Century of Conflict / Montcalm and Wolfe

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This is the second of two Library of America volumes (the companion volume here) presenting, in compact form, all seven parts of Francis Parkman’s monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman’s “history of the American forest” is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes. The story reaches its climax with the fatal confrontation of two great commanders at Quebec’s Plains of Abraham—and a daring stratagem that would determine the future of a continent.

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877) details how France might have won her imperial struggle with England. Frontenac, a courtier who was made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony’s brightest era of growth and influence. Had Canada’s later governors possessed his administrative skill and personal force, his sense of diplomacy and political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion.

England’s American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World and the New, declined from its greatness of the late seventeenth century. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in A Half-Century of Conflict (1892), these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the colonies for the American Revolution.

In Montcalm and Wolfe (1884) Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the two great French and English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, and their unique position. In this imperial war of European powers we also begin to see the American figures—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington—soon to occupy a historical stage of their own.

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Preface
9
FRONTENAC AT QUEBEC
22
16731675
30
FRONTENAC AND DUCHESNEAU
42
LE FEBVRE DE LA BARRE
61
16851687
91
13
96
DENONVILLE AND THE SENECAS
107
17401747
712
Preface
841
17451755
847
17491752
870
CONFLICT FOR THE WEST
888
goes to meet the English Passage of the Monongahela
972
REMOVAL OF THE ACADIANS
1006
Expedition against Crown Point William Johnson Vau
1041

30
108
THE IROQUOIS INVASION
120
RETURN OF FRONTENAC
138
THE THREE WARPARTIES
154
MASSACHUSETTS ATTACKS QUEBEC
173
DEFENCE OF QUEBEC
192
THE SCOURGE OF CANADA
209
16911695
230
16901694
243
CHAPTER XVII
267
CHAPTER XVIII
280
16961698
295
DEATH OF FRONTENAC
308
16991701
315
Appendix
325
PREFACE
337
16941704
348
17031713
359
17041740
373
THE TORMENTED FRONTIER
399
Covert
477
LOVEWELLS FIGHT
502
1712
517
16971750
534
17001732
606
Gunnery Camp Frolics Sectarian Zeal Perplexities
636
The Western Posts Detroit The Illinois Perils of
647
LOUISBOURG TAKEN
654
DUC DANVILLE
672
ACADIAN CONFLICTS
688
SHIRLEYBORDER
1063
Governor Character of Vaudreuil His Accusations
1152
Indian Allies The Warfeast Treatment of Prisoners
1166
A WINTER OF DISCONTENT
1197
17531760
1208
1758
1275
FORT DUQUESNE
1285
CHAPTER XXIII
1308
The Exiles of Fort Cumberland Relief The Voyage
1320
WOLFE AT QUEBEC
1331
Prediction of Jonathan Mayhew
1402
Captain Knox and the Nuns
1421
295
1436
FALL OF CANADA
1443
17581763
1458
17631884
1475
Chronology
1505
Note on the Texts ISII
1511
Index
1517
1421
1518
Evidence of Montcalm Impending Ruin of the Confederates
1521
1443
1531
308
1538
888
1540
502
1548
1166
1549
Results of the War Germany France
1550
325
1560
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Francis Parkman (1823-1893) was one of America's first and greatest historians, author of such narrative masterpieces as The Oregon TrailFrance and England in North America and The Conspiracy of Pontiac.

David Levin
 (1924–1998), volume editor, was professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman, In Defense of Historical Literature, and Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord’s Remembrancer: 1663–1703.

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