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" France, with one stroke of the pen, found herself stripped of those boundless possessions which she had acquired at the cost of so much heroic blood and so much treasure, and which extended in one proud, uninterrupted line, from the mouth of the St. "
Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Louisiana - Page 66
by Amos Stoddard - 1812 - 488 pages
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The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 3

Science - 1821 - 452 pages
...Illinois regions, which were embraced in their vast scheme of forming a chain of posts and settlements from the mouth of the St. Lawrence, to that of the Mississippi. — They did not occupy the country of the Missouri and Illinois, till more than a century after the...
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The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution: Lafayette ...

United States. Department of State - United States - 1830 - 540 pages
...of the importance of the navigation of that river to their future commerce on the interior waters, from the mouth of the St Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, and thereby render that Court averse to any stipulations with Spain to relinquish it. These two objects...
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Lectures on Colonization and Colonies: Delivered Before the ..., Volume 1

Herman Merivale - Colonies - 1841 - 368 pages
...begun to colonize, the whole region which liesl at the back of the thirteen original United States, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi ; comprising both the Canadas, and the vast and fertile valley of the Ohio ; and had actually occupied...
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Early History of Western Pennsylvania: And of the West, and of Western ...

Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 814 pages
...reciprocal attempts to corrupt the Indians, and lo precipitate them into hostilities with the times, served to inflame the gathering storm, and to hasten...the means of subduing the English power in America. (I) maintained it by their arms and by treaties, especially by those of Riswick, Utrecht, and Aix-la-Chapelle....
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Early History of Western Pennsylvania: And of the West, and of Western ...

Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 788 pages
...inflame the gathering storm, and to hasten its approach. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1743, the French ministry more attentively examined the...extremities of both, seemed to unfold the means of subd'j;ng the English power in America. (I) maintained it by their arms and by treaties, especially...
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British Colonies in North America: Canada

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - Canada - 1847 - 278 pages
...made it fall far short of the effect contemplated; so that, although French settlements were extended from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, yet wanting the true progressive impetus, and like exotics requiring unnatural care and protection,...
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Early History of Western Pennsylvania, and of the West, and of Western ...

Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1848 - 782 pages
...gathering storm, and to hasten its approach. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, the grench ministry more attentively examined the strength and...stretching from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of tbe Mississippi, with an almost uninterrupted inland water communication between the extremities of...
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Memoirs of Chateaubriand, Vol, Volumes 1-2

François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - 488 pages
...inexhaustible source of prosperity to us, to pass out of their hands. From Acadia and Canada to Louisiana, — from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, the territory of " New France" encompassed that which formed the confederacy of the first thirteen...
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The Western World; Or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47 ..., Volume 1

Alexander Mackay - United States - 1849 - 396 pages
...extending along the sea-board from Acadia to Georgia. New France swept round the English colonies, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, whilst the Spanish Floridas intervened between them and the Gulf of Mexico. Within this wide embrace,...
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The Conquest of Canada, Volume 2

George Warburton - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...which would now be to us a source of inexhaustible prosperity. From Acadia and Canada to Louisiana, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, the territories of New France surrounded what originally formed the confederation of the thirteen United...
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