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Francis Parkman. Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour
Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour
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LAKE GEORGE AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN
NIAGARA
MONTREAL
QUEBEC
LAKE GEORGE AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN
DISCOVERY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN
CHAMPLAIN'S FIGHT WITH THE IROQUOIS
(Drawn by himself)
DISCOVERY OF LAKE GEORGE
BATTLE OF LAKE GEORGE
THE REGION OF LAKE GEORGE from surveys made in 1762
A WINTER RAID
SIEGE AND MASSACRE OF FORT WILLIAM HENRY
SIEGE OF FORT WILLIAM HENRY. 1757
MONTCALM
Aged 29
BATTLE OF TICONDEROGA
Sketch of the country round Tyconderoga
A LEGEND OF TICONDEROGA
NIAGARA
HENNEPIN'S PICTURE OF NIAGARA
SIEGE OF FORT NIAGARA
MASSACRE OF THE DEVIL'S HOLE
MONTREAL
THE BIRTH OF MONTREAL
QUEBEC
INFANCY OF QUEBEC
A MILITARY MISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ATTACKS QUEBEC
THE HEIGHTS OF ABRAHAM
SIEGE OF QUEBEC, 1759
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge
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Francis Parkman
Lakes George and Champlain; Niagara; Montreal; Quebec
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In January, Shirley had proposed an attack on it to the Ministry; and in February, without waiting their reply, he laid the plan before his Assembly. They accepted it, and voted money for the pay and maintenance of twelve hundred men, provided the adjacent colonies would contribute in due proportion. Massachusetts showed a military activity worthy of the reputation she had won. Forty-five hundred of her men, or one in eight of her adult males, volunteered to fight the French, and enlisted for the various expeditions, some in the pay of the province, and some in that of the King. It remained to name a commander for the Crown Point enterprise. Nobody had power to do so, for Braddock, the commander-in-chief, was not yet come; but that time might not be lost, Shirley, at the request of his Assembly, took the responsibility on himself. If he had named a Massachusetts officer, it would have roused the jealousy of the other New England colonies; and he therefore appointed William Johnson, of New York, thus gratifying that important province and pleasing the Five Nations, who at this time looked on Johnson with even more than usual favor. Hereupon, in reply to his request, Connecticut voted twelve hundred men, New Hampshire five hundred, and Rhode Island four hundred, all at their own charge; while New York, a little later, promised eight hundred more. When, in April, Braddock and the Council at Alexandria approved the plan and the commander, Shirley gave Johnson the commission of major-general of the levies of Massachusetts; and the governors of the other provinces contributing to the expedition gave him similar commissions for their respective contingents. Never did general take the field with authority so heterogeneous.
