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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), MacKINAWinaw, or Michilimackinac (search)
MacKINAWinaw, or Michilimackinac In the bosom of the clear, cold, and damp waters of the strait between Lakes Huron and Michigan—a strait 40 miles in length —stands a limestone rock about 7 miles in circumference, rising in its centre to an altitude of nearly 300 feet, and covered with a rough and generous soil, out of which springs heavy timber. The Indians, impressed by its form, called it Mich-il-imack-i-nac— The Great Turtle. On the opposite shore of the peninsula of Michigan, French Jesuits erected a stronghold and called it Fort Michilimackinac, which name has been abbreviated to Mackinaw. This fort fell into the hands of the British, in their conquest of Canada in 1760, but the Indians there remained hostile to their new masters. You have conquered the French, they said, but you have not conquered us. The most important village of the Chippewas, one of the most powerful tribes of Pontiac's confederacy, was upon the back of Michilimackinac. Early in the summer of 1763 <
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mount Desert Island. (search)
Mount Desert Island. In 1613 Samuel Argall, a sort of freebooter from Virginia, visited the coast of Maine, ostensibly for fishing; but his vessel carried several pieces of artillery. Hearing that Mount Desert Island from Blue Hill Bay. French Jesuits were on Pemetig or Mount Desert Island, he went there and attacked a French vessel that lay at anchor, which, after firing one gun, was compelled to surrender. Du Thet, who discharged the gun, was mortally wounded. The other Jesuits there remonstrated with Argall when he landed and began to search the tents. He broke open the desk of the Jesuit leader, took out and destroyed his commission, and then, pretending that they were within English jurisdiction, without authority, he turned more than a dozen of the little colony loose upon the ocean in an open boat, to seek Port Royal, in Acadia. Two fishing vessels picked them up and carried them to France. The remainder were carried to Virginia, and there lodged in prison and ba
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
. 38°......April 10, 1606 Lord John Popham, chief-justice of England, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, fit out two ships and 100 emigrants, under George Popham and Raleigh Gilbert, which land at Stage Island......Aug. 11, 1607 Finding Stage Island too small, they establish a colony and Popham's Fort on the west bank of the Sagadahoc River......1607 Discouraged by the death of George Popham, and the burning of their storehouse, they return to England in the spring of......1608 Two French Jesuits, Biard and Masse, with several families, settle on Mount Desert Island......1609 Twenty-five French colonists land on Mount Desert Island and found a settlement called St. Saviour......March, 1613 [They were soon expelled by the English from Virginia under Captain Argal as trespassers on English territory.] Capt. John Smith arrives at Monhegan from England. Building seven boats, he explores the coast from Penobscot to Cape Cod, and makes a map of it, to which Prince Charles ass