The Real America in Romance, Volume 8Edwin Markham William H. Wise & Company, 1909 - America |
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Acadians Anse du Foulon answer arms asked Bay of Fundy beneath Boston Braddock Brambridge brave breath British brother Captain Hempstead citadel close colonies command cried David debtors Doctor Franklin Duquesne Elizabeth Elmer Stevens England English eyes face father fear fell fight fire fleet Fort Duquesne Fort Edward FORT NECESSITY Fort Niagara France gazing George Stevens girl gone governor grew grief guns hand head heard heart James Oglethorpe King knew Lake George looked Louisburg Madame de Barre Madeline Marie Monsieur de Montreville Montcalm Montreville mother MOUNT VERNON never night Noah numbers Oglethorpe Ohio company passed Pierre prisoner Quebec replied river Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence River sent silent Sir Manfred soldiers soul spoke stood tell things thou thought told trees troops turned Vaudreuil Virginia voice walls Washington wife William Wolfe woman word young
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Page 389 - I have much business that must be attended to, of greater moment than your ruined garrison and this wretched country. My time is very short; therefore, pray leave me.
Page 261 - After taking Fort Duquesne," says he, "I am to proceed to Niagara; and, having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.
Page 277 - England, refusing to pledge themselves to bear arms against France. The English were masters of the sea, were undisputed lords of the country, and could exercise clemency without apprehension. Not a whisper gave a warning of their purpose till it was ripe for execution. It had been
Page 310 - In the last war we did, in my opinion, most inhumanly, and upon pretences that in the eye of an honest man are not worth a farthing, root out this poor innocent deserving people, whom our utter inability to govern, or to reconcile, gave us no sort of right to extirpate.
Page 257 - I am still of opinion it would have been happy for both sides the water if it had been adopted. The colonies, so united, would have been sufficiently strong to have defended themselves ; there would then have been no need of troops from England ; of course, the subsequent...
Page 190 - July, as a token of renewal of possession heretofore taken of the aforesaid River Ohio, of all streams that fall into it, and all lands on both sides to the source of the aforesaid streams, as the preceding Kings of France have enjoyed or ought to have enjoyed it, and which they have upheld by force of arms and by treaties, notably by those of Ryswick, Utrecht, and Aix-la-Chapelle.
Page 223 - I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Page 192 - Marquis and submit to see Canada severed from Louisiana. Accordingly, in the spring of 1753 Duquesne sent out a force of 1500 men commanded by an able veteran named Marin. This little army crossed Lake Erie at some distance to the west of Niagara River, and landed at Presqu'Isle, where the town of Erie now stands, and there they built a strong blockhouse.
Page 276 - Acadians formed, as it were, one great family. Their morals were of unaffected purity. Love was sanctified and calmed by the universal custom of early marriages. The neighbors of the community would assist the new couple to raise their cottage on fertile land, which the wilderness freely offered. Their numbers increased ; and the colony, which had begun as the trading station of a company, with a monopoly of the fur-trade, counted, perhaps, sixteen or seventeen thousand inhabitants.
Page 191 - Mountains," the Ohio company summoned the adventurous Christopher Gist from his frontier home on the Yadkin. He was instructed to examine the western country as far as the falls of the Ohio ; to look for a large tract of good level land ; to mark the passes in the mountains ; to trace the courses of the rivers ; to count the falls ; to observe the strength and numbers of the Indian nations.