The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain pot

... Hence Acadia remained separate from the Laurentian valley, which was the heart of Canada although Acadia and Canada combined to form New France. Of these two sister districts Canada was the more ... proved a warning. To the average Frenchman of the sixteenth century Canada meant what it afterwards meant to Sully and Voltaire. It was a tract of snow; a land of barba...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... the Governor-General of Acadia or Nova Scotia as lieutenant of the region east of the St. Croix, and another, Charles de Menou, Sieur d'Aulnay-Charnisé, as lieutenant of the region between the St. Croix and ... should have made the internal affairs of New England seem of less consequence to the royal authorities than had been the case in the days of Char...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... had penetrated along the easy pathway of the plains. South of the great granaries of North America and Eurasia the plains are broken, but occur again in the Orinoco region of South America ... hollow and the ridges of Africa and Australia on either hand. The last of the four sides contains the Atlantic Ocean and is bounded by Africa and Europe on one hand an...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... as well as the head of Canada at bay. The exultation of the British more than matched the disappointment of the Americans. Thomas Ainslie, collector of customs and captain of militia at Quebec, ... Chaudiere as soon as the news of the raids on Lake Champlain and St Johns had arrived at the end of May. Thus, though neither of them had anticipated such a bolt...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... reality a number of the tribes of the plains, like the well-known Apaches, as well as the Hupas of California and the Navahos, belong to the Athapascans. In Canada, the Athapascans roamed over the ... into a passage leading to China. But after the discovery of the North Pacific ocean and Bering Strait the idea that America was part of Asia, that the nativ...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

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Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... 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 factions of the Republican party in New York at this ... 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, wh...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... River, Pauw bought, under the same elaborate legal forms, the whole of Staten Island, so called in honor of the Staaten or States-General. To the estate he gave the title of Pavonia, a Latinized ... Calvin, of Livy, and of Ursinus, the friend of Melanchthon, A Treatise on Arithmetic by Adrian Metius, The History of the Holy Land, and a work on natural theol...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... one of the fascinating autobiographies of the old school of shipmasters who had the gift of writing. Captain Amasa Delano, "Narrative of Voyages and Travels" (1817). Another of the ... tempting was the foreign war trade, that a fleet of them was sent across the Atlantic until the American Government barred them from the war zone as too easy a pre...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20