The Great Intendant A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 doc

... 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 ... held a consultation, and the intendant submitted a well-prepared document in which he reviewed the reasons for and against a continuance of the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... of sabbatarian zeal, was fain to admit that 'Severall sorts of Busnesses was a- Going on: Sum a- Exercising, Sum a- Hearing o' the Preaching.' On May 5 Warren sailed into Canso. The ... a night attack on the Island Battery was the best alternative to Warren's impracticable plan. Vaughan jumped at the idea, hoping to repeat in another way his success ag...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... ward off the arrows of the Eskimos. On May 20, a new start was made to the north. Matonabbee and his great company of armed Indians now assumed the appearance of a war party, and hurried eagerly ... 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 pa...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... Ohio had been of great service to the nation in maintaining the standard of value. When a party convention in his district passed resolutions in favor of paying interest on the bonds with paper ... paper instead of coin, he gave a rare instance of political intrepidity by declaring that he would not accept the nomination on such a platform. It was the de...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... 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 ... strains of dying and pathetic music. According to another school of writers mainly authors of personal reminiscences at a time when growing antagonism was accentuating...

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 ... of the French led in the end to making a large part of Canada English. The Revolution meant also that for many a year those in authority in E...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Gothard on the Raab. The regiment of 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 ... bounty from Canada because his attention was concentrated on the costly war against Holland. Campaigns at home meant economy in Canada, and the colony was f...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... began in Chad when a team from the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital was invited to operate on fistula clients in Adre, Abeche, and N’Djamena. After supporting the training of two Chadian doctors at ... a rural area. The government of Chad has organized information days and seminars to raise awareness about fistula and to engage and involve communities and decision makers....

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20