{"product_id":"2940013691780","title":"THE OLD NORTHWEST,A CHRONICLE OF THE OHIO VALLEY AND BEYOND","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.    PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY\u003cbr\u003e     II.  \"A LAIR OF WILD BEASTS\"\u003cbr\u003e     III.  THE REVOLUTION BEGINS\u003cbr\u003e     IV.   THE CONQUEST COMPLETED\u003cbr\u003e     V.    WAYNE, THE SCOURGE OF THE INDIANS\u003cbr\u003e     VI.   THE GREAT MIGRATION\u003cbr\u003e     VII.  PIONEER DAYS AND WAYS\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. TECUMSEH\u003cbr\u003e     IX.   THE WAR OF 1812 AND THE NEW WEST\u003cbr\u003e     X.    SECTIONAL CROSS CURRENTS\u003cbr\u003e     XI.   THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE OLD NORTHWEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. Pontiac's Conspiracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the\u003cbr\u003ecity were still dotted with the white tents of the victorious English\u003cbr\u003eand colonial troops, was indeed an event of the deepest consequence to\u003cbr\u003eAmerica and to the world. By the articles of capitulation which were\u003cbr\u003esigned by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, Canada and\u003cbr\u003eall its dependencies westward to the Mississippi passed to the British\u003cbr\u003eCrown. Virtually ended was the long struggle for the dominion of the\u003cbr\u003eNew World. Open now for English occupation and settlement was that\u003cbr\u003evast country lying south of the Great Lakes between the Ohio and the\u003cbr\u003eMississippi--which we know as the Old Northwest--today the seat of five\u003cbr\u003egreat commonwealths of the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an ingenuity born of necessity, the French pathfinders and\u003cbr\u003ecolonizers of the Old Northwest had chosen for their settlements sites\u003cbr\u003ewhich would serve at once the purposes of the priest, the trader, and\u003cbr\u003ethe soldier; and with scarcely an exception these sites are as important\u003cbr\u003etoday as when they were first selected. Four regions, chiefly, were\u003cbr\u003estill occupied by the French at the time of the capitulation of\u003cbr\u003eMontreal. The most important, as well as the most distant, of these\u003cbr\u003eregions was on the east bank of the Mississippi, opposite and below\u003cbr\u003ethe present city of St. Louis, where a cluster of missions, forts, and\u003cbr\u003etrading-posts held the center of the tenuous line extending from Canada\u003cbr\u003eto Louisiana. A second was the Illinois country, centering about the\u003cbr\u003ecitadel of St. Louis which La Salle had erected in 1682 on the summit of\u003cbr\u003e\"Starved Rock,\" near the modern town of Ottawa in Illinois. A third was\u003cbr\u003ethe valley of the Wabash, where in the early years of the eighteenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury Vincennes had become the seat of a colony commanding both the\u003cbr\u003eWabash and the lower Ohio. And the fourth was the western end of Lake\u003cbr\u003eErie, where Detroit, founded by the doughty Cadillac in 1701, had\u003cbr\u003eassumed such strength that for fifty years it had discouraged the\u003cbr\u003eambitions of the English to make the Northwest theirs.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083153883376,"sku":"2940013691780","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013691780_p0.jpg?v=1763584434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013691780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}