THE CANADIAN DOMINION A CHRONICLE OF OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORBy Oscar D SkeltonNEW HAVEN: YALE potx

... composed of French -Canadian voyageurs and Indians had captured in the first months of war, defied a strong assault. In Upper Canada the Americans raided the western peninsula from Detroit but made ... Buffalo. The year closed with Amherstburg on the Detroit the only Canadian post in American hands. On the sea the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon salv...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... past. Finding, therefore, the tropical islands of the Caribbean sea with a climate and plants and animals such as they imagined those of Asia and the Indian ocean to be, and inhabited by men of ... from the sanded coast of Carolina and from the mild waters of the Gulf Stream. But of the fabled empires of Cathay and Cipango, and the 'towns and castles'...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... 1865. Although an ardent advocate of prohibition and of state regulation of railroads, Weaver remained loyal to the Republican party during the Granger period and in 1875 was a formidable candidate for the ... demobilization of the armies, the closing of war industries, increased immigration, the homestead law, the introduction of improved machinery, and the rapi...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... at the boats crowded together round the narrow landing-place. Undaunted though undisciplined, the men ashore rushed at the walls with their scaling-ladders and began the assault. The attempt was ... had to be taken round by sea, out of range of the Island Battery, hauled up low but very dangerous cliffs, and then dragged back overland another mile and a quarter. The dire...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) the word being descriptive and meaning the lake with the beds of reeds. Hearne and his party crossed the great lake ... in charge of Leroux, a French -Canadian in the service of the company, who had already descended the Slave river, as far as the Great Slave Lake. Leroux and his men carr...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... the law and made a formal declaration that it had abandoned polygamy. Another instance in which a lack of agreement between the executive and the legislative branches of the Government manifested ... into a reputable law office as a student, and thereafter his affairs moved steadily along the road by which innumerable young Americans of diligence and industry ha...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... in California of the American as an American, and not as a traveler or a naturalized citizen, the mission had disappeared from the land, and the land was inhabited by a race calling itself the _gente ... not raised as a day laborer who has tried to do a hard day's work in a new garden can understand what pick and shovel digging in the bottoms of gravel and bou...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... to educate a local priesthood. Four years after his arrival in Canada he had founded the Quebec Seminary (1663) and had added (1668) a preparatory school, called the Little Seminary. But the ... problems of the forest embraced both trade and war; and where trade was concerned the intendant held sway. But the safety of the flock came first, and as Frontenac had the powe...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... Indians ran forward to the assault. The Mohawks, apprised of the coming attack, had determined beforehand to make a stand and had sent their women and children to another village. But, at the ... and a hundred Indians. All was soon ready, and on September 14, the day of the Exaltation of the Cross, Tracy and Courcelle left Quebec, at the head of their troops. It wa...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21