| William Marinus Willett - 1842 - 220 pagine
...the Ohio to Lake Ontario ; thus forming a continuous belt of forts, tradinghouses, and settlements, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi ; acquiring, by this means, one of the richest portions of soil in the world. As may easily be supposed,... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pagine
...larger numbers of this Indian race, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Missisippi, had become estranged from the English and friendly...Montcalm, the French General in Canada, and the second in authority to their Governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil. Montcalm was bora at Nismes in 1712 ; he had... | |
| Henry Trumbull - 1846 - 348 pagine
...French Canadians are of a mixed blood. The great plan of the French was to establish a line of posts from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi ; by which means, with the aid of the savage tribes, they would have been able to control the destinies... | |
| George William Featherstonhaugh - 1847 - 444 pagine
...Missisippi to its mouth, which he reached in 1679. The agents of the French government had now traced a line from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico, and an immense field was open to the enterprise of its subjects and to its own... | |
| George William Featherstonhaugh - 1847 - 812 pagine
...Missisippi to its mouth, which he reached in 1679. The agents of the French government had now traced a line from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico, and an immense field was open to the enterprise of its subjects and to its own... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 448 pagine
...were ever ready to destroy defenceless property, to fire unguarded outposts, to murder and to scalp their prisoners, — atrocities which both English...attachment, or employing it in war, than the Marquis de Montcahn, the French General in Canada, and the second in autho rity to their Governor, the Marquis... | |
| Edward T. Perkins - 1854 - 490 pagine
...Monarque, who, in the seventeenth century, attempted the establishment of a chain of military posts from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi. However feasible the project may appear, save the temporary derangement to commerce, there would be... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 468 pagine
...accused each other by turns of secretly directing, and which it is certain at least that neither wero sufficiently zealous to prevent. But by far the larger...to their Governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil. Mont <-alm was born at Nismes in 1712; he had attained high rank in the service of his country at home,... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 580 pagine
...observations on all the coasts of Europe, from the North Cape of Norway to the Straits of Gibraltar; and from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi. The results of these observations, which were very complete so far as the coast tides were concerned,... | |
| John Watts De Peyster - 1858 - 578 pagine
...and thicker as we proceeded, and then I reflected that once a line of French settlements had extended from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi. All along the immensely extended frontier marked out by these two streams there exist points,such as... | |
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