Picture of Quebec: With Historical RecollectionsNeilson & Gowan, printers, 1834 - 477 páginas |
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... Governor Pownall - General Townshend's Despatches -Battle of the Plains - Death of WOLFE - Intended Monument - Death of MONTCALM ............... ... CHAPTER XVI . ...... 298 Sieges continued . — Memorabilia of 1759 - Fraser's High ...
... Governor Pownall - General Townshend's Despatches -Battle of the Plains - Death of WOLFE - Intended Monument - Death of MONTCALM ............... ... CHAPTER XVI . ...... 298 Sieges continued . — Memorabilia of 1759 - Fraser's High ...
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... Governor to secure a quiet life will raise a smile : " Monsieur Roberval used very good justice , and punished every man according to his offence . One whose name was Michael Gaillon , was hanged for his theft . John of Nantes was laid ...
... Governor to secure a quiet life will raise a smile : " Monsieur Roberval used very good justice , and punished every man according to his offence . One whose name was Michael Gaillon , was hanged for his theft . John of Nantes was laid ...
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... Governor of Dieppe ; who founded a com- pany of merchants at Rouen , in order to establish the trade in a liberal and efficient scale . He equipped an armament under the command of Pontgravé ; who also received letters patent from the ...
... Governor of Dieppe ; who founded a com- pany of merchants at Rouen , in order to establish the trade in a liberal and efficient scale . He equipped an armament under the command of Pontgravé ; who also received letters patent from the ...
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... MONTS , a townsman of Champlain , gen- tleman of the Chamber in ordinary to His Majesty , and Governor of Pons , obtained the most extensive commission yet granted by the King , reaching from Virginia 90 NEW PICTURE OF QUEBEC ,
... MONTS , a townsman of Champlain , gen- tleman of the Chamber in ordinary to His Majesty , and Governor of Pons , obtained the most extensive commission yet granted by the King , reaching from Virginia 90 NEW PICTURE OF QUEBEC ,
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... Governor for the King in Normandy , or some other of the English possessions in France . The orthography of the name , corresponding literally with the present , ren- ders its identity with that of the capital of British America ...
... Governor for the King in Normandy , or some other of the English possessions in France . The orthography of the name , corresponding literally with the present , ren- ders its identity with that of the capital of British America ...
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Hawkins's Picture of Quebec: With Historical Recollections Alfred Hawkins,John Charlton Fisher Vista de fragmentos - 1834 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Admiral afterwards America ancient appears army arrived attack Barracks battery beautiful Bishop boats British building called Canada Cape Diamond Captain Castle of St Champlain Charles Charlevoix Church coast Colonel colony command commenced Croix discovery Donnacona enemy England English erected establishment expedition Father feet fire fortifications France French gallant garden garrison Gaspé Gourgues Governor Gulf of St Hochelaga honor Hospital Hospitalières HOTEL DIEU hundred Huron Indians inhabitants inscription Iroquois Jacques Cartier Jesuits John Cabot Kertk King LA PELTRIE land Lawrence Lévi Lewis Lieutenant Lord Lower Town ment military MONTCALM Montreal natives officers Palace plain Plains of Abraham Pointe Lévi possession present Province Quebec ramparts received Récollet Regiment residence River St Roberval Royal sailed savages Seminary settlement ships shore side siege Spaniards Stadacona stone Street Suffolk Tadoussac tion troops Upper Town URSULINES Verazzano vessels voyage winter WOLFE wounded
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Página 346 - And before ten, the two armies, equal in numbers, each being composed of less than five thousand "men, were ranged in presence of one another for battle. The English, not easily accessible from intervening shallow ravines and...
Página 359 - 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.
Página 88 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Página 71 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Página 296 - ... provided, and am resolved, by the help of God, in whom I trust, by force of arms to revenge all wrongs and injuries offered, and bring you under subjection to the Crown of England, and, when too late, make you wish you had accepted of the favour tendered. "Your answer positive in an hour returned by your own trumpet, with the return of mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue.
Página 320 - I found myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility.
Página 116 - But I had not so much of man in me, But all my mother came into my eyes, And gave me up to tears.
Página 342 - Thereupon the general rejoined: "Go, one of you, my lads, to Colonel Burton — ; tell him to march Webb's regiment with all speed down to Charles River, to cut off the retreat of the fugitives from the bridge.
Página 396 - The enemy," he soon after wrote to Pitt, "was greatly superior in number, it is true ; but when I considered that our little army was in the habit of beating that enemy, and had a very fine train of field artillery ; that shutting ourselves at once within the walls was putting all upon the single chance of holding out for a considerable time a wretched fortification, I resolved to give them battle ; and, half an hour after six in the morning, we marched with all the force I could muster, namely,...
Página 5 - Venient annis Ssecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nee sit terris Ultima Thule...