The Fall of New France, 1755-1760W. Drysdale Company, 1888 - 175 sidor |
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Acadians Admiral Saunders aide-de-camp America Amherst appointed arms army attack avaient battle Beauséjour Boscawen Bougainville Brigadier Britain British camp campaign Canadian cannon capitulation Captain captured Carillon Chevalier Chief Church Colonel command Commander-in-Chief Crown Point defeated enemy engagement England English Entick erected expedition fleet force Fort Beauséjour Fort Duquesne Fort William Henry forts France France aux Colonies French French inhabitants garrison George Government Governor guns Halifax History honor Hugh Palliser immediately Indians JAMES WOLFE killed King Knox Lake land Lawrence Lévis Lord Loudoun Louis Louisbourg Majesty's mand Marquis Memoirs ment military militia Monckton Montcalm en Canada Montreal Murray nation Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives oath officers orders Oswego peace Pitt Pompadour portrait present prisoners Province Quebec received regiment regulars retreat River sent September subjects surrender tion Townshend Treaty of Utrecht troops Vaudreuil vessels Vice-Admiral victory Winslow Wolfe Wolfe's Wolfe's Cove wounded
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Sida 5 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Sida 43 - Majesty's orders and instructions, namely, that your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and live stock of all sorts, are forfeited to the Crown ; with all other your effects, saving your money and household goods, and you yourselves to be removed from this his Province.
Sida 112 - Our joy at this success is inexpressibly damped by the loss we sustained of one of the greatest heroes which this or any other age can boast of, — GENERAL JAMES WOLFE, who received his mortal wound, as he was exerting himself at the head of the grenadiers of Louisbourg.
Sida 44 - I am sensible must give you a great deal of trouble, as easy as his Majesty's service will admit ; and hope that, in whatever part of the world you may fall, you may be faithful subjects, a peaceful and happy people.
Sida 39 - As it had been, before determined to send all the french Inhabitants out of the province if they refused to take the Oaths, nothing now remained to be considered but what measures should be taken to send them away, and where they should be sent to.
Sida 10 - ... about your country and see : you have no fortifications ; no, not even in this city. It is but a step from Canada hither, and the French may come and turn you out of doors. You desire us to speak from the bottom of our hearts, and we shall do it. Look at the French : they are men ; they are fortifying everywhere. But you are all like women, bare and open, without fortifications.
Sida 43 - I know it must be grievous to you, who are of the same species ; but it is not my business to animadvert, but to obey such orders as I receive, and therefore, without hesitation, shall deliver you his Majesty's orders and instructions...
Sida 9 - We don't know what you Christians, English and French, intend," said one of their orators. " We are so hemmed in by you both that we have hardly a hunting-place left. In a little while, if we find a bear in a tree, there will immediately appear an owner of the land to claim the property and hinder us from killing it, by which we live.
Sida 32 - King may have liberty to remove themselves within a year to any other place, as they shall think fit, together with all their moveable effects. But jthose who are willing to remain there, and to be subject to the kingdom of Great Britain, are to enjoy the free exercise of their religion according to the usage of the Church of Borne, as far as the laws of Great Britain do allow the same.
Sida 2 - ONE voice, one people, one in heart, And soul, and feeling, and desire ! Re-light the smouldering martial fire, Sound the mute trumpet, strike the lyre, The hero deed can not expire, The dead still play their part.
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