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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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aries. La Jonquiere, saw the imminent danger of a new war, and like Bedford would have shunned hostilities; but his instructions from the French ministry, although they did not require advances beyond the isthmus, compelled him to attempt confining the English within chap. II.} 1749. the peninsula of Acadia. La Jonquiere to Cornwallis, 25 October, 1749. Cornwallis to La Jonquiere, 1 November, 1749. John H. Lydius to Cornwallis, 1 December, 1749. Abbe Maillard to Gerard Beaubassin, 3 May, 1749. Thus, while France, with the unity of a despotic central power, was employing all its strength in Canada to make good its claims to an extended frontier, Halifax signalized his coming into office by planting Protestant emigrants in Nova Scotia, as a barrier against encroachments on the North East, and by granting lands for a Virginia colony on both banks of the Ohio, in order to take possession of the valley of the Mississippi. With still greater impetuosity he rushed precipitately