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The Conquest of New France Chapter Chapter Title Page I. The Conflict Opens: Frontenac And Phips 1 II. Quebec And Boston 24 III. France Loses Acadia 44 IV. Louisbourg And Boston 67 V. The Great West 97 VI. The Valley Of The Ohio 145 VII. The Expulsion Of The Acadians 164 VIII....
In days before the railway had made possible a bulky commerce by overland routes, rivers furnished the chief means of access to inland regions. The fame of the Ganges, the Euphr...
5. Chapter 5For thirty years England and France now remained at peace, and England had many reasons for desiring peace to continue. Anne, the last of the Stuart rulers, died in 1714. The ne...
12. Chapter 12Though Quebec was in their hands, the position of the British during the winter of 1759-60 was dangerous. In October General Murray, who was left in command, saw with misgiving...
2. Chapter 2Many centuries of European history had been marked by war almost ceaseless between France and England when these two states first confronted each other in America. The conflict...
4. Chapter 4The Peace of Ryswick in 1697 had settled nothing finally. France was still strong enough to aim at the mastery of Europe and America. England was torn by internal faction and wo...
9. Chapter 9The circle of the King and his mistress at Versailles does not tell the whole story of France at this time. No doubt Madame de Pompadour made and unmade ministers, but behind th...
3. Chapter 3At the end of the seventeenth century it must have seemed a far cry from Versailles to Quebec. The ocean was crossed only by small sailing vessels haunted by both tempest and pe...
7. Chapter 7Almost at the moment in 1749 when British ships were lying at anchor in Halifax harbor and sending to shore hundreds of boatloads of dazed and expectant settlers for the new col...
11. Chapter 11During four campaigns the British had suffered humiliating disasters. It is the old story in English history of caste privilege and deadly routine bringing to the top men inadeq...
8. Chapter 8We have now to turn back over a number of years to see what has been happening in Acadia, that oldest and most easterly part of New France which in 1710 fell into British hands....
10. Chapter 10The rejoicing in Canada was brief. Before the end of the year the British were victorious at both the eastern and western ends of the long battle-line. Louisbourg had fallen in...
1. Chapter 1The Conquest of New France Chapter Chapter Title Page I. The Conflict Opens: Frontenac And Phips 1 II. Quebec And Boston 24 III. France Loses Acadia 44 IV. Louisbourg And Boston...
13. Chapter 13• Page 33: Death-bed is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. A few lines above the word, deathbed appears in the middle of a sentence without the hyphen, thus ans...
14. Chapter 14• Page 53: Land-locked is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. There is no other use of the word in the document. We transcribed the word without the hyphen: land...
19. Chapter 19• Page 214: On page 214, war-ships is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing in the clause "There were forty-nine warships, carrying ..." On Page 13 and Page 213, wa...
16. Chapter 16• Page 140: In the clause "The chief said it was far away," it is difficult to tell that there is a space between far and away. There are no other occurrences of faraway in the...
18. Chapter 18• Page 206-Page 207: In Chapter 9, the word encyclopædia was spelled with the a-e lig, but in two other references (Page 178 and Page 240), the o-e lig was used. We retained the...
17. Chapter 17• Page 178: In the sentence "The soldiers of France were preparing to fight on many battle-fields," battlefields is hyphenated and split between two lines. On page 221, the text...
15. Chapter 15• Page 89-Page 90: Sea-shore is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. On pages 120 and 153, seashore is spelled in the middle of the line without the hyphen, so we...