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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 4 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cape Breton (search)
Cape Breton A large island at the entrance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and separated from Nova Scotia by the narrow strait of Canso; discovered by Cabot, 1497. The French fortress Louisburg (q. v.) was situated on this island. This was taken by the New England troops in 1745. Island ceded to England, Feb. 10, 1763; incorporated with Nova Scotia, 1819. Population, 1891, 86,914.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), George (Augustus) 1683- (search)
islature. That body hesitated, but the measure was finally agreed upon by a majority of only one vote. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut furnished their proper quota of troops. New York sent artillery, and Pennsylvania provisions. Commodore Warren was in the West Indies with a fleet, and was expected to join the provincials in the expedition. After waiting some time, the colonial forces, under Sir William Pepperell, sailed, April 4, 1745, for Louisburg. Warren joined them at Canso early in May, and on the 11th the combined land forces, 4,000 strong, debarked at Gabarus Bay, a short distance from the fortress. The first intimation the French had of danger near was the sudden appearance of this formidable armament. Consternation prevailed in the fort and the town. A regular siege was begun on May 31. Other English vessels of war arrived, and the combined fleet and army prepared for attack on June 29. Unable to make a successful resistance, the fortress, the town of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Norridgewock, expedition to (search)
re signs of hostility on their part, which, it was believed, had been excited by the Jesuit missionary. Finally, Father Rale was formally accused of stimulating the Eastern Indians to make war, and in August, 1721, the governor and council of Massachusetts agreed to send a secret expedition to Norridgewock to seize him. The expedition moved in January, 1722, but did not succeed in capturing Father Rale. His papers, seized by the assailants, who pillaged the chapel and the missionary's house, confirmed the suspicion. The Indians retorted for this attack by burning Brunswick, a new village recently established on the Androscoggin. The tribes in Nova Scotia joined in the war that had been kindled, and seized seventeen fishing-vessels in the Gut of Canso, July, 1722, belonging to Massachusetts. Hostilities continued until 1724, when, in August, an expedition surprised Norridgewock, and Rale and about thirty Indian converts were slain, the chapel was burned, and the village broken up.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
ropean Communication181 ————— Total1512,273 Commercial Cable Co.: Transatlantic System—Waterville (Ireland) to Canso (Nova Scotia)36,893 Canso, N. S., to New York1826 Canso, N. S., to Rockport, Mass.1511 Communication in Europe2839 Emden, GeCanso, N. S., to New York1826 Canso, N. S., to Rockport, Mass.1511 Communication in Europe2839 Emden, Germany, via Azores, to New York14,984 ————— Total814,053 Direct United States Cable Co.: Ballinskellig's Bay (Ireland) to Halifax (Nova Scotia)12,564 Halifax, N. S., to Rye Beach, N. H.1535 Total23,099 Western Union Telegraph Co.: TransatlanCanso, N. S., to Rockport, Mass.1511 Communication in Europe2839 Emden, Germany, via Azores, to New York14,984 ————— Total814,053 Direct United States Cable Co.: Ballinskellig's Bay (Ireland) to Halifax (Nova Scotia)12,564 Halifax, N. S., to Rye Beach, N. H.1535 Total23,099 Western Union Telegraph Co.: Transatlantic System—Sennen Cove, near Penzance, England, to Dover Bay, near Canso, N. S.25,107 Dover Bay, N. S., to New York21,776 Gulf of Mexico System8459 ————— Total127,342 Compagnie Francaise des Cables Telegraphiques194,720 Brest (France) to Cape CCanso, N. S.25,107 Dover Bay, N. S., to New York21,776 Gulf of Mexico System8459 ————— Total127,342 Compagnie Francaise des Cables Telegraphiques194,720 Brest (France) to Cape Cod, Mass.13,250 Brest (France) to St. Pierre-Miquelon.12,291 St. Pierre to Cape Cod, Mass.1828 Cape Cod, Mass., to New York1325 Other branch lines2422 ————— Total2511,836 African Direct
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)
and let your books alone, and go to watching the sea, and the clouds, and the islands, and the fog-banks, and the fishes, and the birds; for Natur, says I, don't lie nor give hearsays, but is always as true as the Gospels. But 't was no use talking. There he'd lay in his bunk with his books about him, and I had e'en a'most to drag him on deck to snuff the sea-air. Howsomever, one day,—it was the hottest of the whole season,—after we left the Magdalenes, and were running down the Gut of Canso, we hove in sight of the Gannet Rocks. Thinks I to myself, I'll show him something now that he can't find in his books. So I goes right down after him; and when we got on deck he looked towards the northeast, and if ever I saw a chap wonder-struck, he was. Right ahead of us was a bold, rocky island, with what looked like a great snow-bank on its southern slope; while the air was full overhead, and all about, of what seemed a heavy fall of snow. The day was blazing hot, and there was n't
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
in North America. From Cape Breton, the dominion of Louis XIV. extended up the St. Lawrence to Lake Superior, and from that lake, through the whole course of the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Mobile. Just beyond that bay began the posts of the Spaniards, which continued round the shores of Florida to the fortress of St. Augustine. The English colonies skirted the Atlantic, extending from Florida to the eastern verge of Nova Scotia. Thus, if on the east the strait of Canso divided France and England, if on the south a narrow range of forests intervened between England and Spain, every where else the colonies of the rival nations were separated from each other by tribes of the natives. The Europeans had Chap. XXII.} established a wide circle of plantations, or, at least, of posts; they had encompassed the aborigines that dwelt east of the Mississippi; and, however eager might now be the passion of the intruders for carving their emblems on trees, and designa