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Pemaquid (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
d also by confession, in a fleet of bark canoes, steal out of the Penobscot, and paddle towards Pemaquid. Thomas Gyles and his sons are at work, in the Gyles, II Drake, 77, &c sunny noontide, makingchet, and, for burial, heap boughs over his body. After a defence of two days, the stockade at Pemaquid capitulates; and the warriors return to Penobscot to exult over their prisoners. Other inroadsYork, offering its inhabitants no choice but captivity or death. The fort which was rebuilt at Pemaquid was, at least, an assertion of English supremacy over the neighboring region. In England, thequestion of boundaries between Canada and New England. In the late summer of 1696, the fort of Pemaquid was taken by D'Iberville and Castin. Thus the frontier of French dominion was extended into thfort which controls the vast Indian commerce of the wide regions of Nelson River; the captor of Pemaquid; the successful invader of the English possessions on Newfoundland; and again, in 1697, in spit
Montmorency (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3
ions of the city had already been put in a tenable condition, when, on the sixteenth, at daybreak, the fleet from Boston came in sight, and soon cast anchor near Beauport, in the stream. It was too late. The herald from the ship of the admiral, demanding a surrender of the place, was dismissed with scoffs. What availed the courage of the citizen soldiers who effected a landing at Beauport? Before them was a fortified town de- Oct. 8/18. fended by a garrison far more numerous than the assailants, and protected by marshes and a river fordable only at low tide. The diversion against Montreal had Oct. 1 1/21. utterly failed: the New England men reembark found Abenaki volunteers assembling for his protection. Measures for resistance had been adopted with hearty earnestness; the fortifications were strengthened; Beauport was garrisoned; and the people were resolute and confiding—even women were ready to labor for the common defence. Men watched impatiently the approach of the
Portsmouth (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
plain; but, on the second of September, the spies could observe no trail. The projected attack by land was defeated by divisions,—Leisler charging Winthrop of Connecticut with treachery, and the forces from Connecticut blaming Milborne, the commissary of New York, for the insufficiency of the supplies. But, just as Frontenac, in the full pride of security, Oct. 10. was preparing to return to Quebec, he heard that an Abenaki, hurrying through the woods in twelve says Chap. XXI.} from Piscataqua, had announced the approach of a hostile fleet from Boston. The little colony of Massa- 1690. chusetts had sent forth a fleet of thirty-four sail, under the command of the incompetent Phipps, manned by two thousand of its citizens, who, as they now, without pilots, sounded their way up the St. Lawrence, anxious for the result of the expedition against Montreal, watched wistfully the course of the winds, and hoped in the efficacy of the prayers that went up, evening and morning, from ever
Lake Saint Clair (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Detroit. The Five Nations, by their dep- March 2. uties, remonstrated, but in vain; and, in the month of June, 1701, De la Motte Cadillac, with a Jesuit mis- Charlevoix, II. 284. sionary and one hundred Frenchmen, was sent to take possession of Detroit. This is the oldest permanent settlement in Michigan. That commonwealth began to be colonized before even Georgia; it is the oldest, therefore, of all the inland states, except, perhaps, Illinois. The country on the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair was esteemed the loveliest in Canada; Nature had lavished on it all her charms—slopes and prairies, plains and noble forests, fountains and rivers; the lands, though of different degrees of fertility, were all productive; the isles seemed as if scattered oy art to delight the eye; the lake and the river abounded in fish; the water was pure as crystal; the air serene; Chap. XXI.} the genial climate, temperate and giving health, charmed the emigrant from Lower Canada. Two numerous Indian
Starved Rock (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
om Lower Canada. Two numerous Indian villages gathered near the fort; here were, at last, the wigwams of the Hurons, who, from their old country, had fled first to the Falls of St. Mary, and then to Mackinaw; and above, on the right, in Upper Canada, rose a settlement of the Ottawas, their inseparable companions. The military occupation of Illinois seems to have continued, without interruption, from the time when 1681 La Salle returned from Fort Frontenac. Joutel found a garrison at Fort St. Louis in 1687; in 1689, La Hontan bears testimony that it still continued; in 1696, a public document proves its existence, and the wish of Louis XIV. to preserve it in good condition; and when, in 1700, Tonti again descended the Missis- 1700 sippi, he was attended by twenty Canadian residents in Illinois. The oldest permanent European settlement in the valley of the Mississippi, is the village of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin, or Kaskaskia, the seat of a Jesuit mission, wh
York, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
and death; but no designs of conquest were formed. If Schuyler made an irruption into the 1691. French settlements on the Sorel, it was only to gain successes in a skirmish, and to effect a safe retreat. A French ship anchoring in Port Royal, the red cross Nov. 26. that floated over the town made way for the banner of France; and Acadia was once more a dependence on Canada. In January, 1692, a party of French and 1692. Indians, coming in snow-shoes from the east, burst upon the town of York, offering its inhabitants no choice but captivity or death. The fort which was rebuilt at Pemaquid was, at least, an assertion of English supremacy over the neighboring region. In England, the conquest of Canada was resolved on; but Chap. XXI.} the fleet designed for the expedition, after a repulse at Martinique, sailed for Boston, freighted with the yel- 1693. low fever, which destroyed two thirds of the mariners and soldiers on board. For a season, hostilities in Aug. 11. Maine were
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
of the Mississippi; nor could Spain do more than protest against 1700 what it regarded as a dismemberment of the government of Mexico. France obtained, under Providence, the guardianship of Louisiana, not, as it proved, for its own benefit, but rather as the trustee for the infant nation by which it was one day to be inherited. we arrived safe at Quebec, wrote the admiral, ten or twelve thousand men must have been left to perish of cold Chap. XXI.} and hunger: by the loss of a part, Providence saved all the rest! and he expected public honors for his suc- 1712. cessful retreat, which to him seemed as glorious as a victory. Walker, 28. Such was nded in his affections. His children, his grandchildren, all but one feeble infant, were swept away: he remained alone. 1709 April 29. Bowing to the stroke of Providence, he desired peace, even on humiliating terms. I have always, said he, submitted to the divine will. I make a sacrifice of what I cherished most—I forget my gl
Detroit River (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
establishment at Detroit. The Five Nations, by their dep- March 2. uties, remonstrated, but in vain; and, in the month of June, 1701, De la Motte Cadillac, with a Jesuit mis- Charlevoix, II. 284. sionary and one hundred Frenchmen, was sent to take possession of Detroit. This is the oldest permanent settlement in Michigan. That commonwealth began to be colonized before even Georgia; it is the oldest, therefore, of all the inland states, except, perhaps, Illinois. The country on the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair was esteemed the loveliest in Canada; Nature had lavished on it all her charms—slopes and prairies, plains and noble forests, fountains and rivers; the lands, though of different degrees of fertility, were all productive; the isles seemed as if scattered oy art to delight the eye; the lake and the river abounded in fish; the water was pure as crystal; the air serene; Chap. XXI.} the genial climate, temperate and giving health, charmed the emigrant from Lower Canada.
Salina, Saline County, Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ian brave display more fully its character of passive grandeur. All the tortures that more than four hundred savages Chap. XXI.} could inflict on the decrepit old man, extorted from him not one word of weakness: he scoffed always at his tormentors as the slaves of those whom he despised. On receiving mortal wounds, his last words were, You should have taken more time to learn how to meet death manfully! I die contented; for I have no cause for self-reproach. Such scenes were enacted at Salina. After these successes against the Onondagas and Oneidas, it was proposed to go against the Cayugas, but Frontenac refused, as if uncertain of the result: It was time for him to repose; and the army returned to Montreal. He had humbled, but not subdued, the Five Nations, and left them to suffer from a famine, yet to recover their lands and their spirit,— having pushed hostilities so far that no negotiations for peace could easily succeed. The last year of the war was one of especial a
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
which it was vain to till, and the burning sun, that may have made the emigrants sigh for the cool breezes of Hudson's Bay. Yet there were gleams of light: the white men from Carolina, allies of the Chickasas, invaded the neighboring tribes of Indians, making it easy for the French to establish alliances. Missionaries, also, had already conciliated the good will of remoter nations; Chap XXI.} and from the Taensas and the Yazoos, Davion—whose name belonged of old to the rock now called Fort Adams—and Montigny floated down the Mississippi to visit their countrymen. Already a line of communication existed between Quebec and the Gulf of Mexico. The boundless southern region—made a part of the French empire by lilies carved on forest trees, or crosses erected on bluffs, and occupied by French missionaries and forest rangers—was annexed to the command of the governor of Biloxi. During the absence of D'Iberville, it became apparent that England was jealous of his enterprise. Alrea
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