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Book Jacques Legardeur De Saint Pierre

Download or read book Jacques Legardeur De Saint Pierre written by Joseph L. Peyser and published by East Lansing : Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Manuscripts Translated for This Book -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter One: First Commands, 1729-1737 -- Chagouamigon (La Pointe), 1729-l 732 -- The Miami Post, 1733-1734 -- Fort Beauharnois (The Sioux Post), 1734-1737 -- Notes -- Chapter Two: Marriage and New Assignments, 1738-1745 -- Marriage at Quebec, 1738 -- The Second Chickasaw War, 1739-1740 -- The Miami Post, 1741-1744 -- Notes -- Chapter Three: King George's War, 1745-1747 -- The Saratoga Campaign, 1745 -- The Relief of Fort St. Frédéric, 1745-1746 -- The Defeat of the Mohawk Raiding Party, 1747 -- The Huron Conspiracy, 1747 -- Notes -- Chapter Four: Michilimackinac, 1747-l 749 -- The Relief and Command of Michilimackinac, 1747 -- Michilimackinac, 1747-l 749 -- Petition for the Cross of St. Louis, 1749 -- Lotbiniére's Mission to Michilimackinac, 1749 -- Notes -- Chapter Five: Beyond Michilimackinac: The Western Sea (Part I), 1750-1751 -- The Mythical Western Sea -- Saint-Pierre's Controversial Appointment, 1750 -- Preparations for the Western Sea Expedition, 1750 -- La Jonquiére's Orders, 1750 -- Famine, Knighthood, Supplies, and Brandy, 1751 -- Notes -- Chapter Six: The Western Sea (Part II), 1752-1753 -- Meret's Letter, 1752 -- Saint-Pierre's Journal, 1750-l 753 -- Notes -- Chapter Seven: The Beginning of the French and Indian War, 1753-1755 -- The Ohio Valley Command, 1753-1754 -- Death at the Battle of Lake George, 1755 -- The Governor's Eulogy, 1755 -- Notes -- Chapter Eight: Epilogue -- The Worldly Possessions of Saint-Pierre, 1755 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Saint-Pierre's Transactions in Charles Nolan Lamarque's Account Books, 1735-1736 -- Notes -- Appendix 2: Saint-Pierre's Expense Vouchers at Michilimackinac 1747-1749 -- Notes -- Appendix 3: Inventory of the Possessions Left by Saint-Pierre.

Book Jacques Legardeur De Saint Pierre

Download or read book Jacques Legardeur De Saint Pierre written by Joseph L. Peyser and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documentary biography of Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, an officer in the Troupes de la Marine, who served throughout New France, sheds new light on the business activity of French colonial officers stationed in the West. Many of the eighty previously untranslated documents in Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre demonstrate the extent and profitability of Saint-Pierre's pursuit of business activities while performing official duties in eighteenth-century French North America. The quest for profit permeated Saint- Pierre's career, particularly his command of the Western Sea Post after he succeeded the fabled Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye. Saint-Pierre and his secret partner General Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière, Intendant François Bigot, and Meret, secretary to La Jonquière, used their positions to engage in extensive trade, especially brandy, with the Cree and Assiniboine northwest of Lake Superior. Saint-Pierre's activities provide fresh insights into the North American fur trade.

Book The Book of the Colonies

Download or read book The Book of the Colonies written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Eve of Conquest

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  • Author : Joseph L. Peyser
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 1998-04-30
  • ISBN : 0870139444
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book On the Eve of Conquest written by Joseph L. Peyser and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1754, Charles de Raymond, chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis and a captain in the Troupes de la Marine wrote a bold, candid, and revealing expose; on the French colonial posts and settlements of New France. On the Eve of the Conquest, more than an annotated translation, includes a discussion on the historical background of the start of the French and Indian War, as well as a concise biography of Raymond and Michel Le Courtois de Surlaville, the army colonel at the French court to whom the report was sent. The events surrounding Raymond's controversial year as commandant of the post (now Fort Wayne, Indiana) in 1749-50, his disputed recall by Governor General Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquier, and the subsequent friction between La Jonquiere's successor, Ange de Menneville Duqesne, and Raymond are presented in detail and illustrated by translations of their correspondence.

Book Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire

Download or read book Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire written by Scott Berthelette and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone. Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial authorities, they were not unwavering agents of imperial power. Increasingly they found themselves between two worlds as they built relationships with Indigenous communities, sometimes joining them through adoption or marriage, raising families of their own. The result was an ambivalent empire that grew in fits and starts. It was guided by imperfect information, built upon a contested Indigenous borderland, fragmented by local interests, and periodically neglected by government administrators. Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of the Canadiens who used family and kinship ties to navigate between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French colonial government from the early 1660s to the 1780s. Acting as cultural intermediaries, the Canadiens made it possible for France to extend its presence into northwest North America. Over time, however, their uncertain relationships with the French colonial state splintered imperial authority, leading to an outcome that few could have foreseen – the emergence of a new Indigenous culture, language, people, and nation: the Métis.

Book A Day in United States History   Book 2

Download or read book A Day in United States History Book 2 written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description Undertake your own journey into Colonial American history with the A Day in United States History - Book 2. The volume includes both little and well known tales of the events and people that made up the building blocks of the United States. This frontier history includes the following stories: January 10, 1749 - Petition Filed To Repeal of the Ban Against Slaves February 27, 1717 - The Great Snow of 1717 March 10, 1753- Liberty Bell Hung April 3, 1735 - Georgia Bans Slavery May 12, 1777 - First Ice Cream Advertisement June 26, 1740 - Siege of Fort Mose - War of Jenkins Ear July 07, 1774 - Paul Revere Adopts Snake Device August 15, 1756 - Daniel Boone and Rebecca Married September 11, 1740 - First Mention of a Black Doctor in Colonies October 20, 1774 - Congress created the Continental Association November 05, 1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize December 21, 1767 - Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania journal, united states, this day in history, history stories, beginners, introduction

Book Report  Stockton State Hospital  Calif     1886

Download or read book Report Stockton State Hospital Calif 1886 written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial American History Stories   1753     1763

Download or read book Colonial American History Stories 1753 1763 written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial American History Stories - 1753 - 1763 contains almost 300 history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1755 with the hanging of the Liberty Bell and ends with the Treaty of Paris that ended the French and Indian War. This journal of historical events mark the beginnings of the United States and serve as a wonderful guide of American history. These reader friendly stories include: March 10, 1753- Liberty Bell Hung April 9, 1754 - Slave Girl Priscilla Begins Her Horrible Journey April 12, 1755 - Ben Franklin Receives Letter Describing Death by Tapeworm November 01, 1756 - Samuel Adams Elected Tax Collector June 28, 1762 - First Reported Counterfeiting Attempt at Boston timeline, journal, events, stories, united states, beginnings, guide

Book Indiana   s Timeless Tales   1782     1791

Download or read book Indiana s Timeless Tales 1782 1791 written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Indiana’s Timeless Tales – 1782 – 1791 will discover a wealth of early Indiana history with this timeline of events that cover Indiana history from the formation of the Northwest Territory until General St. Claire's disastrous campaign during Little Turtle's War at the Battle of the Wabash. Northwest Territory Pressure on the native tribes that inhabited the Ohio River Valley region increased after the formation of the Northwest Territory by the Congress. Pioneers began moving into southern Ohio and to a lesser extent the area that would become southern Indiana. Little Turtle's War, or the Northwest Indian War The Miami Chief Little Turtle led the tribes that had united in the Northwestern Confederacy and launched raids against the settlements that encroached on native lands. The violence sparked a number of U. S. military expeditions into Ohio and Indiana. General Arthur St. Claire's expedition in 1791 ended in disaster and the largest United States military defeat, by ratio, in the nation's history at the Battle of the Wabash, sometimes called St. Claire's Defeat. history journal, time line, timeline, northwest Indian war, frontier history, little turtle's war, battle of the wabash

Book People  State  and War under the French Regime in Canada

Download or read book People State and War under the French Regime in Canada written by Louise Dechêne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people. Overturning the tendency to glorify the military feats of New France and exploding the rosy myth of a tax-free colonial population, Louise Dechêne challenges the stereotype of the fighting prowess and military enthusiasm of the colony’s inhabitants. She reveals the profound incidence of social divides, the hardship war created for those expected to serve, and the state’s demands on the civilian population in the form of forced labour, requisitions, and billeting of soldiers. Originally published posthumously in French, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is the culmination of a lifetime of research and unparalleled knowledge of the archival record, including official correspondence, memoirs, military campaign journals, taxation records, and local parish records. Dechêne reconstructs the variegated composition and conditions of military forces in New France, which included militia, colonial volunteers, and regular troops, as well as Indigenous allies. The study offers an informed and ambitious comparison between France and other French colonies and shows that the mobilization of an unpaid, compulsory militia in New France greatly exceeded requirements in other parts of the French domain. With empathy, sensitivity to the social dimensions of life, and a piercing insight into the operations of power, Dechêne portrays the colonial condition with its rightful dose of danger and ambiguity. Her work underlines the severe toll that warfare takes on the individual and on society and the persistent deprivation, disorder, fear, and death that come with conflict.

Book George Washington and the Half King Chief Tanacharison

Download or read book George Washington and the Half King Chief Tanacharison written by Paul R. Misencik and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing "a volley in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire." The book explores the history of the French and English rivalry for the trans-Allegheny territory and its impact on the Indians in the area. It shows how Washington and Tanacharison each sought to influence the other to gain support for their respective agendas. Washington wanted the Indians to endorse Virginia's claim to the Ohio territory, while Tanacharison wanted a war between England and France so that the Iroquois could maintain their dominance over the Ohio Indians. The book describes in detail the sequence of events through which the crafty half-king manipulated Washington into starting the war he wanted, and by his actions implicated Washington in nothing less than a cold-blooded murder.

Book The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire  1713 1763

Download or read book The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire 1713 1763 written by Paul W. Mapp and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history and shows that a Pacific focus is crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years' War.

Book A Savage Empire

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  • Author : Alan Axelrod
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2011-12-06
  • ISBN : 1429990708
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book A Savage Empire written by Alan Axelrod and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and sweeping history that reveals the fur trade to be the driving force behind conquest, colonization, and revolution in early America Combining the epic saga of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder with the natural history of Mark Kurlansky's Cod, popular historian Alan Axelrod reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal—the beaver—played in the creation of our nation. The author masterfully relays a story often neglected by conventional histories: how lust for fur trade riches moved monarchs and men to launch expeditions of discovery, finance massive corporate enterprises, and wage war. Deftly weaving cultural and military narratives, the author chronicles how Spanish, Dutch, French, English, and Native American tribes created and betrayed alliances based on trapping and trade disputes, producing a surprisingly complex series of loyalties that endured throughout the Revolution and beyond.

Book The New International Encyclop  dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Encyclopaedia

Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Canadian People in the Past 1600 1900 H L

Download or read book Western Canadian People in the Past 1600 1900 H L written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only existing listing of historic persons and births, deaths and affiliations for Western Canada and adjacent areas for the Fur Trade eras of 1600-1900

Book On the plains of Abraham

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  • Author : Alberto Rosselli
  • Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
  • Release : 2021-12-01
  • ISBN : 8893278065
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book On the plains of Abraham written by Alberto Rosselli and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle fought on September 13, 1759, on the Plains of Abraham, at the gates of Québec, was a momentous one: only the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House in 1865 was to have such a tremendous impact on the history of North America. The victory scored by the French over the British at Sainte-Foy seven months later, on April 28, 1760, did nothing to change the situation of the Seven Years’ War in North America. The history of Nouvelle France, which ended dramatically in Quebec, had been an epic, heroic and tragic story. It was the first vast empire in North America, in which Native Americans from many Indian nations, European settlers and Jesuit missionaries found themselves living together and collaborating under the Crown of France. Edition enriched by an extensive iconographic apparatus. With a Preface of Raimondo Luraghi, Professor Emeritus in American History University.