The Works of Francis Parkman: A half century of conflictLittle, Brown and Company, 1910 |
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The Works of Francis Parkman: A half century of conflict Francis Parkman Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1910 |
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Abenaki Acadians Anglois Annapolis Royal arms attack autres avoient avoit ayant bastion batterie Beaubassin Beauharnois Beaujeu bien blockhouse Boston British Canada Canadians cannon capitulation Captain capture Chibucto chief colonies command Crown danger Dauphin détachement deux droits Duchambon enemy England English été étoient étoit faire fait fire fleet force Fort La Reine Fort Massachusetts françois French french Inhabitants Garrison governor Grace Grand Pré guns Habitant de Louisbourg harbor hommes hundred Indians Island Jonquière jour killed L'Angleterre l'ennemy l'isle la Caroline La Vérendrye Lake land letter Majesty Majesty's Majesty's Government Mandans Mascarene Massachusetts Ministre monsieur Nouvelle france Nova Scotia officers party payis Pepperrell port porte Dauphine prisoners Province qu'elle qu'ils qu'on quinibequi Ramesay rendre Rigaud river says Schiegnecto sent settlement ships Shirley to Newcastle siege Sieur Sioux soldiers terre tion tirer tout town Treaty of Utrecht troops vaisseaux Vérendrye village Warren
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Sida 131 - l Warren to Pepperrell, 10 June, 1745. It is said that he had been seen in the French church hewing at the altar and images with the axe that he had brought for that purpose; and perhaps this iconoclastic performance had eased the high pressure of his zeal. 1 Amazing as their triumph was,
Sida 224 - April, 1747. * NY Col. Docs., i. 97. Shirley, and the other to Colonel William Williams, who seems to have been his immediate military superior. At most points they are substantially the same ; but that to Williams contains some passages not found in the other. The letter to Shirley is printed in Saunderson, History of
Sida 124 - he gives an extract from a letter written to him by Shirley, in which that inveterate flatterer hints his regret that, by reason of other employments, Warren could not take command of the whole expedition, — "which I doubt not," says the governor, 1 Report of a Consultation of Officers on board hit
Sida 135 - to put your men in the way of loading cannon," 3 was Warren's contribution to the operations of the siege; though the fear of attack 1 Report of Consultation on board the " Superbe," 1 June, 1746. " Commodore Warren did say publickly that before the Circular Battery
Sida 139 - Hutchinson, Hist. Mass., ii. 391-395. Letters of Bollan in Massachusetts Archives. It was through the exertions of the much-abused Thomas Hutchinson, Speaker of the Assembly and historian of Massachusetts, that the money was used for the laudable purpose of extinguishing the old debt. Tenderness in the Strongest manner."— Shirley to
Sida 199 - promising to do their duty thenceforth, but begging him to excuse them from giving up persons who had acted " contraire aux Interests de leur devoire," representing the difficulty of their position, and protesting " une Soumission parfaite et en touts Respects." The letter is signed by four deputies, of whom one
Sida 39 - and surveys of the country between the Missouri and the Rocky Mountains visited by the brothers La Vérendrye ; and I have received from Captain Bourke, and also from Mr. EA Snow, formerly of the Third Cavalry, much information concerning the same region, repeatedly traversed by them in peace and war.
Sida 140 - Anglais. A Québec, chez Guillaume le Sincère, à l'Image de la Vérité", 1745. This little work, of eighty-one printed pages, is extremely rare. I could study it only by having a literatim transcript made from the copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, as it was not in the British Museum. It bears the signature
Sida 160 - still clung to the hope of a successful stroke at Annapolis, till in October an Acadian brought him the report that the garrison of that place had received a reinforcement of twelve hundred men. The reinforcement consisted in reality of three small companies of militia sent from Boston by Shirley. La
Sida 104 - 2 as they would otherwise have been swept out of existence, being under the concentred fire of several French batteries, two of which were within the range of a musket-shot. The scarcity of good gunners was one of the chief difficulties of the besiegers. As privateering, and piracy also, against Frenchmen and Spaniards was a