Identifier: magazineofamericv4stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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wasthe aim of many a hostile war party from Canada, and suspected ofmany counter-plots and expeditions, in which the Mohawk allies ofthe Hollanders were the principal actors. We follow closely, even atthe present hour, with our highways and railroads, many of the rudepaths and trails first trodden in the wilderness by past generations ofthe red men. That w^as a great war-path which stretched from the River of Canada, through the Lake-gate-of-the-coiintry, Champlain,.and Andiatarocte, the St. Sacrement, to the Riviere d Orange. Manywere the bands of painted braves, Huron or Iroquois, deadly foes,armed with bow, lance, and tomahawk, which had marched in noise-less single file along that trail, or more stealthily in their light canoesthrough those waters. And when the pale-faces took possession ofCanada, many were the hostile parties from the St. Lawrence, or fromOrange, which followed the same war-path to and fro. How manywere the great military expeditions planned during the eighteenth
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THE HUDSON RIVER AND ITS EARLY NAxMES 417 century at St. James and St. Germain, for the command of NorthAmerica, in which Orange was the base of operations, or the goal inview. It is indeed remarkable that of all those expeditions so fewwere even partially successful. The Lake-Gate-of-the-country hasalways been sternly defended against invasion, whether under the flagof France, or at a later day that of England. Battles have been lostand won, by civilized armies, on that ancient war-path. Orange, how-ever, struck its colors but once, and that only when the New Nether-lands were ceded to England. And even when that event occurred, inspite of the change of flag and name, the Dutch town continued tobe Orange in Canada and in France, and the river was to the Frenchthe Riviere d Orange. Only twenty years before the Revolution,in 1754, a French writer speaking of New York says, it is situate onthe left bank of the River Orange, near its mouth, at the sea. Occa-sionally, however, the French

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