American Annals: Or, A Chronological History of America, from Its Discovery in 1492 to 1806, Volume 2printed; London, 1813 - America |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 7
... French , surprized the town of York ; killed about se- venty - five of the inhabitants ; carried about the same number into captivity ; and principally destroyed the town 3. On the tenth of June , an army of French and Indians made a ...
... French , surprized the town of York ; killed about se- venty - five of the inhabitants ; carried about the same number into captivity ; and principally destroyed the town 3. On the tenth of June , an army of French and Indians made a ...
Page 8
... French from claim- ing Acadie , as a derelict country 2 . While Massachusetts had found it expedient to accept a new charter , which deprived the colonists of some of their ancient privileges 3 ; Rhode Island and Connecticut were al ...
... French from claim- ing Acadie , as a derelict country 2 . While Massachusetts had found it expedient to accept a new charter , which deprived the colonists of some of their ancient privileges 3 ; Rhode Island and Connecticut were al ...
Page 13
... French interest ; and promised to maintain perpetual peace ; to forbear private revenge ; to restore all captivates ; and to allow a free trade . As a secu- rity to their fidelity , they delivered hostages 3 . Count Frontenac , governor ...
... French interest ; and promised to maintain perpetual peace ; to forbear private revenge ; to restore all captivates ; and to allow a free trade . As a secu- rity to their fidelity , they delivered hostages 3 . Count Frontenac , governor ...
Page 14
... French , in this enterprize , lost eighty men , and had above thirty wounded 1 . The French , by their trade with the Indians , had ac- cumulated a great quantity of furs and other peltry at Mis- silimakinak ; but the Five Nations had ...
... French , in this enterprize , lost eighty men , and had above thirty wounded 1 . The French , by their trade with the Indians , had ac- cumulated a great quantity of furs and other peltry at Mis- silimakinak ; but the Five Nations had ...
Page 16
... French , the Indians were induced to violate the treaty of Pemaquid . On the eighteen of July the Sieur de Villieu , with a body of two hundred and fifty Indians , fell with fury on a village at Oyster river , in New Hampshire , and ...
... French , the Indians were induced to violate the treaty of Pemaquid . On the eighteen of July the Sieur de Villieu , with a body of two hundred and fifty Indians , fell with fury on a village at Oyster river , in New Hampshire , and ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American appointed arms army arrived assembly attack Boston Brit Britain British British army built Canada captain Charlestown Charlevoix charter church Coll College colonists colony command congress Connecticut council court detachment died enemy England English erected expedition exported fire five fleet force Fort Edward four hundred France French garrison Georgia governor Hampshire harbour Harvard College Hewet Hist Hutchinson Ibid Indians inhabitants Jersey killed king land legislature lieutenant colonel lord lord Cornwallis lord Rawdon Massachusetts ment miles militia minister Missisippi negroes neral North Nova Scotia officers ordered parliament passed an act peace Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia port president prisoners province Quebec received regiment retreat Rhode Island river royal sailed Savannah sent settlement ships six hundred soon South Carolina Stiles surprized surrender thousand three hundred tion took town treaty troops Trumbull Univ vessels Virginia Washington William wounded Yale College York
Popular passages
Page 416 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 419 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 325 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Page 220 - Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England, and under such Regulations and Restrictions as are used in other Colonies...
Page 267 - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there ; and, above all, for preventing in the mean time any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes, posted in their town, — it may graciously please His Majesty that immediate orders...
Page 259 - By shutting up the port of Boston, some imagine that the course of trade might be turned hither and to our benefit; but...
Page 217 - 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...
Page 232 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 218 - His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which His subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world...
Page 219 - ... degrees of north latitude, passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said River St Lawrence from those which fall into the sea; and also along the north coast of the...