Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.. You can also browse the collection for Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) or search for Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
ness to devote life and fortune for the commonwealth, but from the firm resolve never to place its concentrated strength under an authority independent of itself. It desired not union only, but self-direction. The events of the summer strengthened the purpose, but delayed the period, of taxation by parliament. Between England and France peace existed under ratified treaties; it was proposed not to invade Canada, but only to repel encroachments on the frontier from the Ohio to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. For this end, four expeditions were concerted by Braddock at Alexandria. Lawrence, the lieutenanternor of Nova Scotia, was to reduce that province chap. VIII.} 1755. according to the English interpretation of its boundaries; Johnson, from his long acquaintance with the Six Nations, was selected to enroll Mohawk warriors in British pay, and to conduct an army of provincial militia and Indians against Crown Point; Shirley proposed to win laurels by driving the French from Niagara;
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
etween the nations for dominion and for equality on the seas. France desired to escape from the humiliating condition of demolishing the harbor of Dunkirk. Since England has acquired the dominion of the seas, said Pitt to Bussy, I myself fear Dunkirk but little; but the people regard its demolition as an eternal monument of the yoke imposed on France. Flassan, VI. 403, 405. Choiseul was ready to admit concessions with regard to Dunkirk, if France could retain a harbor in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with the freedom of the fisheries. Without these, he would himself decline chap. XVII.} 1761. June. further negotiation. In those days, maritime power was thought to depend on the encouragement of the fisheries; and to renounce them seemed like renouncing the power of manning a navy. Pitt refused the fisheries altogether. The union of France with Spain was the necessary consequence, and was promoted by the reduction of Belle-Isle. You have effectually roused France in every pa