The Modern Part of an Universal History,: From the Earliest Account of TimeS. Richardson, T. Osborne, C. Hitch, A. Millar, John Rivington, S. Crowder, P. Davey and B. Law, T. Longman, and C. Ware., 1763 - World history |
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... joined him . After remaining there a fhort while , Tonti went to the country of the Illinois , while la Sale returned to Catarocouy , where he received undoubted intelligence , that his new veffel , which was called the Griphon , was ...
... joined him . After remaining there a fhort while , Tonti went to the country of the Illinois , while la Sale returned to Catarocouy , where he received undoubted intelligence , that his new veffel , which was called the Griphon , was ...
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... joined Tonti ; and about the end of August , after rambling backwards and forwards for three months , they , once more , fet out for Catarocouy , to procure fresh fupplies of adventu- rers and provifions . In his way thither he vifited ...
... joined Tonti ; and about the end of August , after rambling backwards and forwards for three months , they , once more , fet out for Catarocouy , to procure fresh fupplies of adventu- rers and provifions . In his way thither he vifited ...
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... joined by fome other troops under D'Orvilliers . The whole body em- barked the 26th and 27th ; and on the 1st of August , la Barre had undoubted intelligence , that the cantons of Onnontague , Onneyouth , and Goyogouin ; had obliged the ...
... joined by fome other troops under D'Orvilliers . The whole body em- barked the 26th and 27th ; and on the 1st of August , la Barre had undoubted intelligence , that the cantons of Onnontague , Onneyouth , and Goyogouin ; had obliged the ...
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... joining with the English , and was confirmed in his refolution to make war upon them . For that purpose , he found it neceffary to throw a ftrong garrifon into fort Cataracouy , and to fend a confiderable detachment by Sorel river , to ...
... joining with the English , and was confirmed in his refolution to make war upon them . For that purpose , he found it neceffary to throw a ftrong garrifon into fort Cataracouy , and to fend a confiderable detachment by Sorel river , to ...
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... joined du Luth at the entry of the ftrait of lake Huron . The miffionaries , on this occafion , faved the French in New France from deftruction . The natives , favage as they were , perceived that the French intended to enflave them ...
... joined du Luth at the entry of the ftrait of lake Huron . The miffionaries , on this occafion , faved the French in New France from deftruction . The natives , favage as they were , perceived that the French intended to enflave them ...
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Page 249 - King cedes and makes over the whole to the said King, and to the Crown of Great Britain, and that in the most ample manner and form, without restriction, and without any liberty to depart from the said cession, and guaranty under any pretence, or to disturb Great Britain in the possessions above mentioned.
Page 360 - America ; it is agreed, that for the future, the confines between the dominions of His Britannic Majesty, and those of His Most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
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