Old Quebec: The Fortress of New FranceMacmillan, 1904 - 486 Seiten |
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adventure American ancien régime army arrival attack bastions batteries Beauport became Bougainville brave Brébeuf British camp Canada canoes Cap Rouge Carleton Cartier Champlain Charles Château Church citadel colonists colony command coureurs de bois defence despatched enemy England English enterprise expedition fell fire fleet force Fort Frontenac fortress Foye France French Canadians Frenchmen Frontenac garrison Gate Governor guns harbour history of Quebec honour Hudson's Bay Company hundred Hurons Indians Iroquois Jesuits King Lake land Lawrence Lévis Lord Lord Durham Louis Louisbourg Lower Canada Lower Town marched Marquis Meanwhile mission Montcalm Montreal Murray night officers Palace palisade passed peace Point Lévi province Quebec ramparts Récollet régime regiment Richelieu river Royal sailed Salle savage Seigneur ships shore siege Sillery soldiers soon spirit stood Tadousac thousand to-day trade troops Upper Canada Upper Town Ursuline Vaudreuil village winter Wolfe Wolfe's woods
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 292 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 203 - This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Seite 292 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Seite 214 - I found, that, instead of pushing on with vigor, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every molehill, and to erect bridges over every brook, by which means we were four days in getting twelve miles.
Seite 203 - Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers, — Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven? Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers...
Seite 368 - I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about.
Seite 126 - Such was Cavelier de la Salle. In him, an unconquerable mind held at its service a frame of iron, and tasked it to the utmost of its endurance. The pioneer of western pioneers was no rude son of toil, but a man of thought, trained amid arts and letters.
Seite 287 - I found myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility.
Seite 440 - ... least instructed inhabitants of the rural districts. Intimately acquainted with the wants and characters of their neighbours, they have been the promoters and dispensers of charity, and the effectual guardians of the morals of the people ; and, in the general absence of any permanent institutions of civil government, the Catholic church has presented almost the only semblance of stability and organization, and furnished the only effectual support for civilization and order.
Seite 124 - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting.