The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 10Yale University Press, 1918 |
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... north from Vir- ginia and destroyed the rising French settlements . Sixteen years after this another English force attacked and captured Quebec . Presently these conquests were restored . France remained in pos- session of the St ...
... north from Vir- ginia and destroyed the rising French settlements . Sixteen years after this another English force attacked and captured Quebec . Presently these conquests were restored . France remained in pos- session of the St ...
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... a highway link- ing the inland waters with the sea . The French had always an eye for points of strategic value ; and in holding Quebec they hoped to possess the pivot on which the destinies of North America should turn THE CONFLICT OPENS ...
... a highway link- ing the inland waters with the sea . The French had always an eye for points of strategic value ; and in holding Quebec they hoped to possess the pivot on which the destinies of North America should turn THE CONFLICT OPENS ...
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... North America was rich . Today its vast agriculture and its wealth in minerals have brought rewards be- yond the dreams of two hundred years ago . The wealth , however , sought by the leaders of that time came from furs . In those ...
... North America was rich . Today its vast agriculture and its wealth in minerals have brought rewards be- yond the dreams of two hundred years ago . The wealth , however , sought by the leaders of that time came from furs . In those ...
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... , it is true , a shorter and , indeed , a better route farther north , by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Nipissing to Lake Huron . In time , however , the Iroquois made even this route unsafe . 8 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
... , it is true , a shorter and , indeed , a better route farther north , by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Nipissing to Lake Huron . In time , however , the Iroquois made even this route unsafe . 8 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
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... North America . Like all virile but backward peoples , they believed themselves superior to every other race . Their orators declared that the fate of the world was to turn on their policy . On Frontenac's return to Canada he had a ...
... North America . Like all virile but backward peoples , they believed themselves superior to every other race . Their orators declared that the fate of the world was to turn on their policy . On Frontenac's return to Canada he had a ...
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