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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 3 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
g is so carefully done that the shape of the rope is scarcely altered. A long-splice. Round-tool. （Wood-turning.) A round-nose chisel (h, Fig. 4481) for making concave moldings. Round-turn. （Nautical.) One turn of a rope around a timber; or of one cable around another, caused by the swinging of the ship when at anchor. Round-up. （Shipbuilding.) The convexity or arch of a deck. Rouse-a-bout′ block. （Nautical.) A snatchblock of large size. See snatch-block. Rous′er. A stirrer in the hop-copper of a brewcry. Rout′er. （Joinery.) A sash-plane made like a spokeshave, to work on circular sash. It may be an ovolo router or a lamb's-tongue router, according to the nature of the molding. Rout′er-gage. A gage (i, Fig. 4481) with a stem and adjustable fence, and provided with a tooth like a narrow chisel, adapted to cut a groove in wood or brass, for the purpose of inlaying. Rout′er-plane. It has a broad surface, carrying i
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
ant of maritime strength, Canada and Louisiana were the bulwarks of France in America against English ambition. De Puysieux, the French minister for foreign affairs, like the English Secretary, Bedford, was earnestly desirous of avoiding war; but a fresh collision in America touched the sense of honor of the French nation, and made negotiation .hopeless. A French brigantine with a schooner, laden with provisions and warlike stores, and bound from Quebec to the river St. John's, was met by Rous in the British ship of war Albany off Cape Sable. He fired a gun to bring her to; she kept on her course: he fired another and a third; and the brigantine prepared for action. The English instantly poured into her a broadside and a volley of small arms; and after a short action compelled her to strike. The Albany had a midshipman and two mariners killed; the French lost five men. The brigantine was taken to Halifax, and condemned in the Admiralty Court. Cornwallis to Lords of Trade, 27
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
es, inasmuch as they had been forced into the service, amnesty was stipulated. The place received an English garrison, and, from the brother of the king, then the soul of the regency, was named Cumberland. The petty fortress near the river Gaspereaux, on Bay Verde, a mere palisade, flanked by four blockhouses, without mound or trenches, and tenanted by no more than twenty soldiers, though commanded by the brave De Villerai, could do nothing but capitulate on the same terms. Meantime, Captain Rous sailed, with three frigates and a sloop, to reduce the French fort on the St. John's. But before he arrived there, the fort and dwellings of the French had been abandoned and burned, and he took possession of a deserted country. Thus was the region east of the St. Croix annexed to England, with a loss of but twenty men killed, and as many more wounded. No further resistance was to be feared. The Acadians cowered before their masters, hoping forbear- chap. VIII.} 1755. ance; willing