The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton, Volumen12Glasgow, Brook, 1916 - 239 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 9
Página 17
... United Empire Loyalists . In the nineties each of these parts was set to work out its own salvation under its own provincial constitution . Carleton's is the only personality which links together all four decades - the would- be ...
... United Empire Loyalists . In the nineties each of these parts was set to work out its own salvation under its own provincial constitution . Carleton's is the only personality which links together all four decades - the would- be ...
Página 46
... United Empire Loyalists just before their great migration , when he was Carleton's secretary at New York . In 1769 the official correspondence entered the secret and con- fidential ' stage with a dispatch from the home government to ...
... United Empire Loyalists just before their great migration , when he was Carleton's secretary at New York . In 1769 the official correspondence entered the secret and con- fidential ' stage with a dispatch from the home government to ...
Página 57
... Empire , as a whole people , on terms which they must all have understood to be exceedingly generous from any conquering power , and which they would ... United Empire Loyalists and the growth of the Mari- time Provinces GOVERNOR CARLETON 57.
... Empire , as a whole people , on terms which they must all have understood to be exceedingly generous from any conquering power , and which they would ... United Empire Loyalists and the growth of the Mari- time Provinces GOVERNOR CARLETON 57.
Página 61
... Empire . On each side stood three parties . Opponents were ranged against each other in the mother country , in the Thirteen Colonies , and in Canada ... United Empire Loyalists sided with the Crown . A majority sided with the INVASION 61.
... Empire . On each side stood three parties . Opponents were ranged against each other in the mother country , in the Thirteen Colonies , and in Canada ... United Empire Loyalists sided with the Crown . A majority sided with the INVASION 61.
Página 121
... United Empire Loyalists . Yet , in spite of this remarkable significance , no public memorial of Carleton has ever been set up ; and it was only in the twentieth century that the Dominion first thought of commemorating his most pregnant ...
... United Empire Loyalists . Yet , in spite of this remarkable significance , no public memorial of Carleton has ever been set up ; and it was only in the twentieth century that the Dominion first thought of commemorating his most pregnant ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton William Charles Henry Wood Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
Términos y frases comunes
American appointed arms army Arnold arrived attack barricade battery began British Canada Cape Diamond Captain Carleton Chambly chance Chronicle civil clergy Colonel command Continental Congress Cramahé Crown Point defence Dominion enemy England English English-speaking Ethan Allen favour fight fire fleet flotilla force Fourteenth Colony France French Canadians garrison Germain governor Green Mountain Boys guns habitants home government House hundred Indians John Ross Robertson King's Lady Lake Champlain later laws liberty lieutenant Lord Lower Canada Lower Town ment miles military militia militiamen Montgomery Montreal mother country Murray officer parliament Pitt political Près-de-Ville present prisoners provinces Quebec Act rebels regulars Richelieu round Royal Emigrants Sault-au-Matelot seigneurs sent ship side siege soldiers Sorel St Charles St Johns St Lawrence surrender Thirteen Colonies thousand Three Rivers Ticonderoga tion treaty troops turned United Empire Loyalists Upper Canada vessels victory Walker walls whole Wolfe Wolfe's
Pasajes populares
Página 27 - And whereas it is just and reasonable, and essential to our interest, and the security of our colonies, that the several nations or tribes of Indians with whom we are connected, and •who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them, as their hunting grounds...
Página 101 - ... themselves soldiers, the impossibility of relief, and the certain prospect of wanting every necessary of life should your opponents confine their operations to a single blockade, point out the absurdity of resistance. Such is your situation. " I am at the head of troops accustomed to success, confident of the...
Página 216 - ... we have acted in the most peaceable manner and borne the language and conduct of the people of the United States with patience; but I believe our patience is almost exhausted.
Página 151 - English troops happened to be, that officers being convinced that neither high birth nor great employments can shelter offences of such a nature, and that seeing they are subject to censures much worse than death to a man who has any sense of honour, they may avoid...
Página 101 - I am at the head of troops accustomed to success, confident of the righteousness of the cause they are engaged in, inured to danger and fatigue, and so highly incensed at your inhumanity, illiberal abuse, and the ungenerous means employed to prejudice them in the minds of the Canadians ; that it is with difficulty I restrain them till my batteries are ready, from assaulting your works, which would afford them the fair opportunity of an ample vengeance and just retaliation...
Página 203 - Your Lordship will observe that the general object of this plan is to assimilate the Constitution of that Province to that of Great Britain, as nearly as the difference arising from the manners of the People and from the present Situation of the Province will admit.
Página 137 - The wild and barbarous savages of the wilderness have been solicited by gifts to take up the hatchet against us, and instigated to deluge our settlements with the blood of innocent and defenceless women and children.
Página 100 - I am well acquainted with your situation. A great extent of works, in their nature incapable of defence, manned with a motley crew of sailors, the greatest part our friends, of citizens who wish to see us within their walls, and a few of the worst troops who ever styled themselves soldiers.