Identifier: newfrancenewengl00fisk (find matches)
Title: New France and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 New England -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e and imperative thatthe barbarians felt obliged to yield. After this summerdays work there was a general movement homewards. Itwas a fair average specimen, doubtless, of warfare in theStone Age ; a long, desultory march, a random fight, a fewdeaths on the field and a few more at the stake, and nothingdefinitely accomplished. This last remark, however, will not apply to Champlainsfirst forest fight. A specimen of the Stone Age in all otherparticulars, it was in one particular — the presence of thethree Frenchmen — entirely remote from the Stone Age.In that one particular it not only accomplished somethingdefinite, but it marked an epoch. Of the many interestingmilitary events associated with Ticonderoga it seems themost important. There was another July day, 149 yearslater, when a battle was fought at Ticonderoga in which20,000 men were engaged and more than 2000 were killedand wounded. That battle, in which Americans and Brit-ish were woefully defeated by the Marquis de Montcalm,
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o < a< < OD c< o u < w Q 64 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND was a marvellous piece of fighting, but it is now memorableThis battle ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ prodigies of valour which failed to began a redeem the dulness of the English general. It de-dead iv ° °hostility be- cidcd nothing, and so far as any appreciable effect twcGn tllG French and upou the future was concemcd, it might as wellroquois ^^^ havc bccu fought. But the little fight of 1609,in which a dozen or more Indians were killed, marks withstrong emphasis the beginning of the deadly hostility be-tween the French in Canada and the strongest Indian poweron the continent of North America. In all human proba-bility the breach between Frenchmen and Iroquois would inany case have come very soon ; it is difficult to see whatcould have prevented it. But in point of fact it actually didbegin with Champlains fight with the Mohawks. On the Jul) day when the Frenchmans thunder andlightning so frightened those dusky warriors, a littl

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