The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 10Yale University Press, 1918 |
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... in addition perhaps two hundred sailors , were lost on that awful night . The disaster was not overwhelming and Walker might have gone on and captured Quebec . He had not lost a single war - ship and he 60 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
... in addition perhaps two hundred sailors , were lost on that awful night . The disaster was not overwhelming and Walker might have gone on and captured Quebec . He had not lost a single war - ship and he 60 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
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... disaster , they could not disregard this counsel . Though the character of the English is such that usually a reverse serves to stiffen their backs , in this case it was not so . A council of war yielded to the panic of the hour and the ...
... disaster , they could not disregard this counsel . Though the character of the English is such that usually a reverse serves to stiffen their backs , in this case it was not so . A council of war yielded to the panic of the hour and the ...
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... disaster been witnessed by any onlookers . The island where it occurred was then and still remains desert . Up to the middle of October , nearly two months after the disaster , the watchers at Quebec feared that they might see any day a ...
... disaster been witnessed by any onlookers . The island where it occurred was then and still remains desert . Up to the middle of October , nearly two months after the disaster , the watchers at Quebec feared that they might see any day a ...
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... disaster he broke up his force and retired . For the moment Canada was safe from the threatened invasion . In spite of this apparent deliverance , the long war , now near its end , brought a destructive blow to French power in America ...
... disaster he broke up his force and retired . For the moment Canada was safe from the threatened invasion . In spite of this apparent deliverance , the long war , now near its end , brought a destructive blow to French power in America ...
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... is a form of madness to which human greed is ever liable . Walpole's financial insight condemned from the first the wild outburst , and his common sense dur- ing the crisis helped to stem the tide of disaster 70 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
... is a form of madness to which human greed is ever liable . Walpole's financial insight condemned from the first the wild outburst , and his common sense dur- ing the crisis helped to stem the tide of disaster 70 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
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