Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Charles R. Brown
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385395593
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Federick Austin Ogg
Publisher : 1st World Library - Literary Society
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421800257
The fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the city were still dotted with the white tents of the victorious English and colonial troops, was indeed an event of the deepest consequence to America and to the world. By the articles of capitulation which were signed by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, Canada and all its dependencies west-ward to the Mississippi passed to the British Crown. Virtually ended was the long struggle for the dominion of the New World. Open now for English occupation and settlement was that vast country lying south of the Great Lakes between the Ohio and the Mississippi - which we know as the Old Northwest - today the seat of five great commonwealths of the United States. With an ingenuity born of necessity, the French pathfinders and colonizers of the Old Northwest had chosen for their settlements sites which would serve at once the purposes of the priest, the trader, and the soldier; and with scarcely an exception these sites are as important today as when they were first selected. Four regions, chiefly, were still occupied by the French at the time of the capitulation of Montreal. The most important, as well as the most distant, of these regions was on the east bank of the Mississippi, opposite and below the present city of St. Louis, where a cluster of missions, forts, and trading-posts held the center of the tenuous line extending from Canada to Louisiana. A second was the Illinois country, centering about the citadel of St. Louis which La Salle had erected in 1682 on the summit of "Starved Rock," near the modern town of Ottawa in Illinois. A third was the valley of the Wabash, where in the early years of the eighteenth century Vincennes had become the seat of a colony commanding both the Wabash and the lower Ohio. And the fourth was the western end of Lake Erie, where Detroit, founded by the doughty Cadillac in 1701, had assumed such strength that for fifty years it had discouraged the ambitions of the English to make the Northwest theirs.
Author : Jonathan N. Hall
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fortification
ISBN : 9780788475283
An up-to-date guide on the critical forts of the Old Northwest Territory from the time of the first French explorers to the end of the Black Hawk War. Recounts the construction and role of each fort, highlighting any major events that occurred during the war, the settling of the territory, the people who occupied it, and life at the forts. Provides information about what can be seen or experienced at the forts today, including dates and hours of operation in addition to museums, re-enactments, or other educational activities.
Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher :
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 1878
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.
Author : Daniel Steele Durrie
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 1878
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Clinton Boggess
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830" by Arthur Clinton Boggess. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : William Clogston
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 1899
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Stanislaus Vincent Henkels
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Books
ISBN :
Author : George Newman Fuller
Publisher :
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Michigan
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Michigan
ISBN :