Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Three Rivers” in chapter 9, page 207 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:
... the backwoodsmen.
The French, on the other hand, called every able-bodied man in the district of Montreal into active service for the defence of Crown Point, so that reapers had to be sent up from Three Rivers and Quebec to gather in the harvest.
Early in August, the New England men, having Phinehas Lyman for their major-general, were finishing
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