 | William Marinus Willett - 1842 - 220 strani
...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,... | |
 | Henry Trumbull - 1846 - 348 strani
...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 - 812 strani
...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 - 444 strani
...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 608 strani
...France, vol. iii. p. 80.) AT VV \T CHAP. vantage from their more lively temper and more conmanners; they had attached to themselves much the greater proportion...employing it in war, than the Marquis de Montcalm, the French.General in Canada, and the second in authority to their Governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil.... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 428 strani
...la " Nouvelle France une pauvrete cachee par un air d'aisance." (Nouvelle France, vol. iii. p. 80.) with firmness, were ever ready to destroy defenceless...Montcalm, the French General in Canada, and the second in autho rity to their Governor, the Marquis de Yaudreuil. Mont calm was born at Nismes in 1712 ; he had... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 446 strani
...•' Nouvelle France une pauvrete cachee par uu air d'aisance." (Nouvelle France, vol. iii. p. 80.) with firmness, were ever ready to destroy defenceless...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 520 strani
...were ever ready to destroy defenceless property, to fire unguarded outposts, to murder and toscalp their prisoners, — atrocities which both English...Montcalm, the French General in Canada, and the second in autho rity to their Governor, the Marquis de VaudreuiL Mont calm was born at Nismes in 1712 ; he had... | |
 | Edward T. Perkins - 1854 - 490 strani
...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 strani
...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...Montcalm, the French General in Canada, and the second in autho rity to their Governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil. Mont <-alm was born at Nismes in 1712; he had... | |
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Indian race, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, had become estranged from the English and friendly to the French. 
