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France and England in North America - Volume 5

Francis Parkman

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Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most notable American historians.
Preface excerpt: The events recounted in this book group themselves in the main about a single figure, that of Count Frontenac, the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the New World. From strangely unpromising beginnings, he grew with every emergency, and rose equal to every crisis. His whole career was one of conflict, sometimes petty and personal, sometimes of momentous consequence, involving the question of national ascendancy on this continent.

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. . .egging your aid for a poor, unhappy people on the point of falling victims to a nation of barbarians." He says that the total number of men in Canada capable of bearing arms is about two thousand; that he received last year a hundred and fifty raw recruits; and that he wants, in addition, seven or eight hundred good soldiers. "Recall me," he concludes, "if you will not help me, for I cannot bear to see the country perish in my hands." At the same time, he declares his intention to attack the Senecas, with or without help, about the middle of August. [Footnote: La Barre au Roy, 5 Juin, 1684.] Here we leave him, for a while, scared, excited, and blustering.

[1] Soon after La Barre's arrival, La Chesnaye is said to have induced him to urge the Iroquois to plunder all traders who were not provided with passports from the governor. The Iroquois complied so promptly, that they stopped and pillaged, at Niagara, two canoes belonging to La Chesnaye himself, w. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV - finished 07.26.22

A Half Century of Conflict - finished 07.13/23

I have now completed Parkman's volumes on the French and British conflict in North America. Parkman was a terrific writer whose research holds up well more than a century later, although his prejudices against Catholics and "savage" Indians don't fair so well. The books are long but very readable, f

This work is an incredible journey. One forgets that he is reading. From the very beginning of France in the New World until its demise, the traveler sees the evolution of a people and the discovery of breathtaking vistas and the sacrifices of our ancestors. Our modern existence exhibits an ennui be

Second volume of the collected works of Francis Parkman, a great 19th-century American historian. This is an exhaustive history of French settlement and conflict in North America. This volume begins with Frontenac's arrival in Quebec in 1672 and ends with the final dissolution of French Canada in 17

New England humanitarianism, melting into sentimentality at a tale of woe, has been unjust to its own. Whatever judgment may be passed on the cruel measure of wholesale expatriation, it was not put in execution till every resource of patience and persuasion had been tried in vain. The agents of the