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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., The American Revolution. (search)
e thousand seven hun- chap I.} 1748. dred and forty-eight, Montesquieu, wisest in his age of the reflecting statesmen of France, apprized the cultivated world, that a free, prosperous and great people was forming in the forests of America, which Engtulated to insurgent husbandmen. The world could not watch with indifference the spectacle. The oldest aristocracy of France, the proudest nobles of Poland, the bravest hearts of Germany, sent their representatives to act as the peers of plebeiannations protected the young republic by an chap. I.} 1748. armed neutrality; while the catholic and feudal monarchies of France and Spain, children of the Middle Age, were wonderfully swayed to open the gates of futurity to the new empire of democralled the Southern Department, chap. I.} 1748. which included the conduct of all relations with the Spanish peninsula and France. The Board of Trade, framed originally to restore the commerce and encourage the fisheries of the metropolis, was compel
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
the congress, as subsidiary to the war between France and England, were overtaken by the news, that ent boundaries, belonged to Great Britain; but France had always, even in times of profound peace, ascarene, 15 January, 1749. At the West, also, France had uniformly and frankly claimed the whole bating its meeting, the menaced encroachments of France urgently claimed his attention; and with equalg the shareholders. Aware of these designs, France anticipated England. Immediately, in 1749, Lakled towards the Ohio, the country belonged to France; while the lilies of the Bourbons were nailed t near the mouth of the St. John's remained to France. The English had no settlement on that river;and abandon the peninsula for new homes, which France would provide. Letter of the French Inhabit to the more pacific La Jonquiere, repaired to France, to be employed on the commission for adjustinerard Beaubassin, 3 May, 1749. Thus, while France, with the unity of a despotic central power, w[6 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
enty years of age, one day to be a minister of France, and a friend to the United States, then priored, in the presence of the assembled clergy of France, just twenty-six years to a day before the Decrged England to encroach on the possessions of France, that the future inhabitants of still larger rade, 10 July, 1750. in the world, yet bound to France by their religion and their oaths, consumed th. If you do, you may run a risk of a war with France; that risk is to be run. Newcastle to Pelhar in Nova Scotia without previous concert with France. Pelham to Newcastle in Coxe II. 344. In Auid interpretation of treaties, was untenable. France never had designed to cede, and had never cedeorial, 16 November, 1750. There existed in France statesmen who thought Canada itself an incumbrgth, Canada and Louisiana were the bulwarks of France in America against English ambition. De Puysids of Trade, 27 November, 1750. On the side of France, indignation knew no bounds; it seemed that it[4 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
also honestly inclined to maintain peace with France. The governor of that colony Cornwallis to, which was certain to leave the wilderness to France. When the congress, which Clinton had invitgn relations, De Puysieux, who, on the part of France, was responsible for the treaty of Aix-la-Chapwere distracted by the state of relations with France. Along the confines of Nova Scotia, the heall victims to the fury of the Indian allies of France. At the same time, the Ohio Company, with tm awakened by the annually increasing power of France, which already ruled Lake Ontario with armed vley of the beautiful river should be gained by France. Many proposals, too, were made for laying was itself to make the conquest of the West. France was defied and attacked: and no preparation wad each other in repelling all encroachments of France on the undoubted Circular of Holdernesse toaty with the Six Nations. On the relations of France and England with those tribes and their Wester[2 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
men, and without protection against the impending encroachments of France. The young men of the Six Nations had been hunting, in April, need his purpose of seizing every Englishman within the Ohio valley. France was resolved on possessing the great territory which her missionariy, Hening's Statutes at large, VI. 417. unwilling to engage with France, yet ready to protect the settlers beyond the mountains, agreed to ad conducted the commission for adjusting the line of boundary with France, had propitiated the favor of Halifax and Cumberland by flattery, athem fatal wounds throughout the continent of Europe. In repelling France from the basin of the Ohio, Washington broke the repose of mankind. And at the very time when the name of Washington became known to France, the child was just born who was one day to stretch out his hand fots head-springs in the Alleghanies, no standard floated but that of France. Hope might dawn from Albany. There, on the nineteenth day of J
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
veliest of scenes, with no intercepting ridge between his dwelling-place and the far distant ocean; a diligent student of the languages of Greece and Rome, and of France, treading the mountain-side with elastic step in pursuit of game. Beyond the Blue Ridge men came southward from the glades of Pennsylvania; of most various natio revived Poland, animated Germany, swayed the North; and the inquisition of Spain could not silence its whispers among the mountains of the Peninsula. It invaded France; and though bonfires, by way of warning, were made of heretics at the gates of Paris, it infused itself into the French mind, and led to unwonted free discussionsion without a prelate, a government without a king. Fortified by its faith in fixed decrees, it kept possession of its homes among the Alps. It grew powerful in France, and invigorated, between the feudal nobility and the crown, the long contest, which did not end, till the subjection of the nobility, through the central despoti
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
The feebleness of the ministry, in which there was not one single statesman of talent enough to avoid a conflict with France, encouraged the ambition of that power. At the same time it was seen that the people of America, if they would act in co to Brief State of Pennsylvania. The contest along the American frontier was raging fiercely, when, in January, 1755, France proposed to England to leave the Ohio valley in the condition in which it was at the epoch before the last war, and at th would have secured to his sovereign all the country north and west of the Ohio. England, on the contrary, demanded that France should destroy all her forts as far as the Wabash, raze Niagara and Crown Point, surrender the peninsula of Nova Scotia, a neutral desert. Proposals so unreasonable could meet with no acceptance; yet both parties professed a desire—in which France appears to have been sincere—to investigate and arrange all disputed points. The credulous diplomatist put trust in the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
Chapter 8: England and France Contend for the Ohio valley and for Acadia.—Newcastle's administration continued. 1755. anarchy lay at the heart of the insurpose, but delayed the period, of taxation by parliament. Between England and France peace existed under ratified treaties; it was proposed not to invade Canada, bur souls. They promised submission to England; but such was the love with which France had inspired them, they would not fight against its standard or renounce its naly to the tyranny. Under pretence of fearing that they might rise in behalf of France, or seek shelter in Canada, or convey provisions to the French garrisons, they le-mindedness and sincerity, refusing to pledge themselves to bear arms against France. The English were masters of the sea, were undisputed lords of the country, anlifax and his colleagues to Lieutenant-Governor Lawrence, 29 October, 1754. France remembered the descendants of her sons in the hour of their affliction, and as
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
's people went up, that they might be crowned with victory to the glory of God; for the war with France seemed a war for Protestantism and freedom. But Johnson knew not how to profit by success; wirge III. and letters. Waldegrave's Memoirs. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatie Francoise, VI. France and England were still at peace; and their commerce was mutually protected by the sanctity of trs about seven hundred thousand pounds. Eight thousand French seamen were held in captivity. All France resented the perfidy. Never, said Louis the Fifteenth, will I forgive the piracies of this insond, in a letter to George the Second, he demanded ample reparation for the insult to the flag of France by Boscawen, and for the piracies of the English men-of-war, committed in defiance of internatio reciprocal duties of kings. Louis XV. to Geo. II., 21 October, 1755. The wound inflicted on France by this robbery of private property on the high seas before a declaration of war, rankled inward
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
7. The open declaration of war was not made by chap. X.} 1756. England till May; though her navy had all the while been employed in despoiling the commerce of France. At the commencement of avowed hostilities, she forbade neutral vessels to carry merchandise belonging to her antagonist. Frederick of Prussia had insisted, thated the commerce of the Netherlands in naval stores; denied them the right to become the carriers of French colonial products, and declared all the harbors of all France to be in a state of blockade, and all vessels bound to them lawful prizes. Van Kampen's Geschichte der Niederlande, II., 443. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatht of the Canadians and the savages, the missionaries planted a cross bearing the words, This is the banner of victory; by its side rose a pillar with the arms of France, and the inscription, Bring lilies with full hands. Expressions of triumphant ecstasy broke from Montcalm; but, to allay all jealousy of the red men, he razed th
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