The Work of Francis Parkman: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

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Little, Brown, 1897
 

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Halaman 36 - I, the aforesaid William Phipps, Knight, do hereby in the name and on behalf of their most excellent Majesties, William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, and by order of their said Majesties...
Halaman 56 - Indented Bill of Ten Shillings, due from the Massachusetts Colony to the Possessor, shall be in value equal to Money, and shall be accordingly accepted by the Treasurer and Receivers subordinate to him in all Publick Payments, and for any Stock at any time in the Treasury Boston in New England, December the I 0';> 1690. By Order of the General Court.
Halaman 80 - I was at the time dozing, with my head on a table and my gun lying across my arms. The sentinel told me that he heard a voice from the river. I went up at once to the bastion to see whether it was Indians or Frenchmen. I asked, ' Who are you ? ' One of them answered, ' We are Frenchmen : it is La Monnerie, who comes to bring you help.
Halaman 80 - Marguerite, wife of the Sieur Fontaine, who being extremely timid, as all Parisian women are, asked her husband to carry her to another fort. . . He said, ' I will never abandon this fort while Mademoiselle Madelon (Madeleine) is here.
Halaman 216 - What perhaps may be least forgiven him is the barbarity of the warfare that he waged, and the cruelties that he permitted. He had seen too many towns sacked to be much subject to the scruples of modern...
Halaman 232 - Must I,' exclaimed one of their great warriors, as he fell wounded among a crowd of Algonquins, — 'must I, who have made the whole earth tremble, now die by the hands of children?' Their power kept pace with their pride. Their war-parties roamed over half America, and their name was a terror from the Atlantic to the Mississippi ; but, when we ask the numerical strength of the dreaded confederacy, when we discover that, in the days of their greatest triumphs...
Halaman 76 - Light the powder, and blow us all up.' ' You are a miserable coward, ' said I, ' go out of this place. ' I spoke so resolutely that he obeyed. I then threw off my bonnet; and after putting on a hat and taking a gun, I said to my two brothers :
Halaman 48 - Beaupre had hastened to join them. They fought like Indians, hiding behind trees or throwing themselves flat among the bushes, and laying repeated ambuscades as they slowly fell back. At length, they all made a stand on a hill behind the buildings and fences of a farm; and here they held their ground till night, while the New England men taunted them as cowards who would never fight except under...
Halaman 75 - Beauharnais, governor of Canada, caused the story to be written down from the recital of the heroine herself. Vercheres was on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, about twenty miles below Montreal. A strong blockhouse stood outside the fort, and was connected with it by a covered way. On the morning of the twenty-second of October, the inhabitants were at work in the fields, and nobody was left in the place but two soldiers, two boys, an old man of eighty, 1 Relalion, 1682-1712.
Halaman 36 - The war between the two crowns of England and France, does not only sufficiently warrant, but the destruction made by the French and Indians under your command and encouragement, upon the persons and estates of their Majesties...

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