The Fighting Governor A Chronicle of Frontenac pdf

... Carignan-Salières was also engaged on this occasion. In the next year it came to Canada, and Lorin thinks that the association of Frontenac with the Carignan regiment in this campaign may have ... of Canada, the strife between Frontenac and Laval may be traced back to France. During the early years of Louis XIV the French Church was distracted by the disputes of Gall...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... over official patronage, always strong and ardent upon the accession of every new President, was aggravated in Garfield’s case by the factional war of which his own nomination was a phase. The ... made him widely known as the reform mayor of Buffalo. His record and reputation naturally attracted the attention of the state managers of the Democratic party, who were...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at the end of t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... because 'It will please your whole army, as it shows them the way to gain by their gallantry the hearts and affections of the Ladys.' And even a city of the 'Great Awakening,' ... hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a great deal of goodwill, in spite of the fact that his 'Admiral's eighth...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... miles east and west. This is the Great Slave Lake; Hearne speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake. The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) the word ... beyond the basin of the Saskatchewan and the Columbia emptied towards the north. Hearne had revealed the existence of the Great Slave Lake, and the advance of daring f...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... experience. There is an instance of a priest from Santa Clara, sued before the alcalde of San José for a breach of contract. His plea was that as a churchman he was not amenable to civil law. The American ... several trails. The third was by the Isthmus of Panama. Each of these two is worth a chapter, and we shall take up the overland migration first. CHAPTER V ACR...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... On the sea the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon salved the pride of England. The last year of the war was also a year of varying fortunes. In the far West a small body of Canadians and ... fellow trader, Mackay, and six Canadian voyageurs, he pushed up the Peace and the Parsnip, passed by way of the Fraser and the Blackwater to the Bella C...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... possession of Andaraque, and of all the country of the Mohawks, in the name of the king. A cross was solemnly planted alongside a post bearing the king's coat of arms. Mass was celebrated and the ... triangular, narrow at the head, wide at the base, so that the houses erected at the head were near each other and formed a square in the centre of th...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... available the wonderful riches of the inland country, across the Appalachian barrier and around the Great Lakes, into which American pioneers had already made their way. Those immemorial pathways, ... looking at the nearest parallel in the facts of history, each of us may make his own guess. The airship appears now to be much farther advanced than the steamboat was for m...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20