The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 10Yale University Press, 1918 |
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... fortress of Louisbourg . It was planned on the most approved military principles of the time . Through its strength , the boastful talk went , France should master North America . The King sent out cannon , undertook to build a hos ...
... fortress of Louisbourg . It was planned on the most approved military principles of the time . Through its strength , the boastful talk went , France should master North America . The King sent out cannon , undertook to build a hos ...
Page 73
... fortress was , in truth , slow in building and never more than a rather desolate outpost of France . It con- tained in all about four thousand people . During the thirty years of the long truce it became so strong that it was without a ...
... fortress was , in truth , slow in building and never more than a rather desolate outpost of France . It con- tained in all about four thousand people . During the thirty years of the long truce it became so strong that it was without a ...
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... fortress defended by a French garrison was something that only a few bold spirits among them could imagine . Such a spirit , however , was William Vaughan , a Maine trader , deeply involved in the fishing industry and confronted with ...
... fortress defended by a French garrison was something that only a few bold spirits among them could imagine . Such a spirit , however , was William Vaughan , a Maine trader , deeply involved in the fishing industry and confronted with ...
Page 81
... fortress . In January , 1745 , Shirley called a ses- sion of the General Court , the little parliament of Massachusetts , and , having taken the unusual step of pledging the members to secrecy , he un- folded his plan . But it proved ...
... fortress . In January , 1745 , Shirley called a ses- sion of the General Court , the little parliament of Massachusetts , and , having taken the unusual step of pledging the members to secrecy , he un- folded his plan . But it proved ...
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... of the place . Disease broke out . Hundreds of New England soldiers died and their bones now lie in graves , unmarked and forgotten , on the sea- shore by the deserted fortress ; at almost any time 88 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
... of the place . Disease broke out . Hundreds of New England soldiers died and their bones now lie in graves , unmarked and forgotten , on the sea- shore by the deserted fortress ; at almost any time 88 THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE.
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