{"product_id":"2940013874343","title":"THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.    THE CONFLICT OPENS: FRONTENAC AND PHIPS\u003cbr\u003e     II.   QUEBEC AND BOSTON\u003cbr\u003e     III.  FRANCE LOSES ACADIA\u003cbr\u003e     IV.   LOUISBOURG AND BOSTON\u003cbr\u003e     V.    THE GREAT WEST\u003cbr\u003e     VI.   THE VALLEY OF THE OHIO\u003cbr\u003e     VII.  THE EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. THE VICTORIES OF MONTCALM\u003cbr\u003e     IX.   MONTCALM AT QUEBEC\u003cbr\u003e     X.    THE STRATEGY OF PITT\u003cbr\u003e     XI.   THE FALL OF CANADA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. The Conflict Opens: Frontenac And Phips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany centuries of European history had been marked by war almost\u003cbr\u003eceaseless between France and England when these two states first\u003cbr\u003econfronted each other in America. The conflict for the New World was but\u003cbr\u003ethe continuation of an age-long antagonism in the Old, intensified now\u003cbr\u003eby the savagery of the wilderness and by new dreams of empire. There\u003cbr\u003ewas another potent cause of strife which had not existed in the\u003cbr\u003eearlier days. When, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the\u003cbr\u003eantagonists had fought through the interminable Hundred Years' War, they\u003cbr\u003ehad been of the same religious faith. Since then, however, England had\u003cbr\u003ebecome Protestant, while France had remained Catholic. When the rivals\u003cbr\u003efirst met on the shores of the New World, colonial America was still\u003cbr\u003every young. It was in 1607 that the English occupied Virginia. At\u003cbr\u003ethe same time the French were securing a foothold in Acadia, now Nova\u003cbr\u003eScotia. Six years had barely passed when the English Captain Argall\u003cbr\u003esailed to the north from Virginia and destroyed the rising French\u003cbr\u003esettlements. Sixteen years after this another English force attacked\u003cbr\u003eand captured Quebec. Presently these conquests were restored. France\u003cbr\u003eremained in possession of the St. Lawrence and in virtual possession of\u003cbr\u003eAcadia. The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic\u003cbr\u003eseaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger.\u003cbr\u003eThe steady hostility of the rivals never wavered. There was, indeed,\u003cbr\u003elittle open warfare as long as the two Crowns remained at peace. From\u003cbr\u003e1660 to 1688, the Stuart rulers of England remained subservient to\u003cbr\u003etheir cousin the Bourbon King of France and at one with him in religious\u003cbr\u003efaith. But after the fall of the Stuarts France bitterly denounced\u003cbr\u003ethe new King, William of Orange, as both a heretic and a usurper, and\u003cbr\u003eattacked the English in America with a savage fury unknown in Europe.\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1690 to 1760 the combatants fought with little more than pauses for\u003cbr\u003erenewed preparation; and the conflict ended only when France yielded to\u003cbr\u003eEngland the mastery of her empire in America. It is the story of this\u003cbr\u003estruggle, covering a period of seventy years, which is told in the\u003cbr\u003efollowing pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe career of Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, who was Governor\u003cbr\u003eof Canada from 1672 to 1682 and again from 1689 to his death in 1698,\u003cbr\u003ereveals both the merits and the defects of the colonizing genius of\u003cbr\u003eFrance. Frontenac was a man of noble birth whose life had been spent\u003cbr\u003ein court and camp. The story of his family, so far as it is known, is\u003cbr\u003ea story of attendance upon the royal house of France. His father and\u003cbr\u003euncles had been playmates of the young Dauphin, afterwards Louis XIII.\u003cbr\u003eThe thoughts familiar to Frontenac in his youth remained with him\u003cbr\u003ethrough life; and, when he went to rule at Quebec, the very spirit that\u003cbr\u003edominated the court at Versailles crossed the sea with him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man is known by the things he loves. The things which Frontenac most\u003cbr\u003ehighly cherished were marks of royal favor, the ceremony due to his own\u003cbr\u003erank, the right to command. He was an egoist, supremely interested in\u003cbr\u003ehimself. He was poor, but at his country seat in France, near Blois, he\u003cbr\u003ekept open house in the style of a great noble. Always he bore himself\u003cbr\u003eas one to whom much was due. His guests were expected to admire his\u003cbr\u003eindifferent horses as the finest to be seen, his gardens as the most\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful, his clothes as of the most effective cut and finish, the\u003cbr\u003eplate on his table as of the best workmanship, and the food as having\u003cbr\u003esuperior flavor. He scolded his equals as if they were naughty children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet there was genius in this showy court figure. In 1669, when the\u003cbr\u003eVenetian Republic had asked France to lend her an efficient soldier\u003cbr\u003eto lead against the rampant Turk, the great Marshal Turenne had chosen\u003cbr\u003eFrontenac for the task. Crete, which Frontenac was to rescue, the Turk\u003cbr\u003eindeed had taken; but, it is said, at the fearful cost of a hundred\u003cbr\u003eand eighty thousand men. Three years later, Frontenac had been sent\u003cbr\u003eto Canada to war with the savage Iroquois and to hold in check the\u003cbr\u003eaggressive designs of the English.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069034021104,"sku":"2940013874343","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013874343_p0.jpg?v=1763596417","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013874343","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}