History of Louisiana: The French Domination, Volume 1Redfield, 1854 |
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... Governor of Louisiana History of Anthony Crozat , the great Banker - Conces- sion of Louisiana to him , . 79 FOURTH LECTURE . Lamothe Cadillac , Governor of Louisiana - Situation of the Colony in 1713 - Feud between Cadillae and ...
... Governor of Louisiana History of Anthony Crozat , the great Banker - Conces- sion of Louisiana to him , . 79 FOURTH LECTURE . Lamothe Cadillac , Governor of Louisiana - Situation of the Colony in 1713 - Feud between Cadillae and ...
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... Governor of Louisiana for the second time , in the place of L'Epinay - Foundation of New Orleans - Expedition of St ... Governor ad interim - Black Code - Expulsion of the Jews - Catholic Religion to be the sole Re- ligion of the Land ...
... Governor of Louisiana for the second time , in the place of L'Epinay - Foundation of New Orleans - Expedition of St ... Governor ad interim - Black Code - Expulsion of the Jews - Catholic Religion to be the sole Re- ligion of the Land ...
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... Governor Périer - Census in 1727 - Expenses of the Colonial Administration - Edict of Henry the Second against Unmarried Women - Other Facts and Events from 1723 to 1727- Traditions on the Music heard at the mouth of Pascagoula River ...
... Governor Périer - Census in 1727 - Expenses of the Colonial Administration - Edict of Henry the Second against Unmarried Women - Other Facts and Events from 1723 to 1727- Traditions on the Music heard at the mouth of Pascagoula River ...
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... governor for life , of all the territory that he can subjugate . Not unmindful he , the Christian knight , the hater and con- queror of Moorish infidelity , of the souls of his future vassals ; for , twenty - two ecclesiastics accompany ...
... governor for life , of all the territory that he can subjugate . Not unmindful he , the Christian knight , the hater and con- queror of Moorish infidelity , of the souls of his future vassals ; for , twenty - two ecclesiastics accompany ...
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... governor of Canada , he communicated to him his views and pro- jects for the aggrandizement of France , and suggested to him the gigantic plan of connecting the St. Law- rence with the Mississippi by an uninterrupted chain of forts ...
... governor of Canada , he communicated to him his views and pro- jects for the aggrandizement of France , and suggested to him the gigantic plan of connecting the St. Law- rence with the Mississippi by an uninterrupted chain of forts ...
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arrived attack bank became Bienville Bienville's Biloxi blood brother Cadillac called Chaise Chickasaw war Chickasaws chief Choctaws Chopart colonists colony command Crozat D'Artaguette d'Aubant Dauphine Island death Denis dispatches Duke of Orleans enemies expedition eyes father favor feet fire force France French government governor of Louisiana Governor Périer Grondel ground hand head heart hundred Iberville Indians John Law killed king king's commissary Lake Pontchartrain land livres looked Louis Louisiana Maréchal de Villars ment mind Mississippi Mississippi Company Mobile moon Natchez Natchitoches nation negroes never noble officers Orleans peace Pensacola possession Prince of Conti princess prisoners received river royal Salle sent settlement ship slaves soldiers soon soul sovereign Spaniards Spanish spirit stood Stung Serpent Superior Council temple thee thing thou thought tion tribe troops Tunicas vessels village warriors whole wife women Yazoos
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Page 463 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 395 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 229 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 81 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee. And trusted to thy billows far and near. And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 186 - The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp— and what is writ, is writ; Would it were worthier; but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
Page 207 - At the commencement of the year 1719 an edict was published, granting to the Mississippi Company the exclusive privilege of trading to the East Indies, China, and the South Seas, and to all the possessions of the French East India Company, established by Colbert. The Company, in consequence of this great increase of their business, assumed, as more appropriate, the title of Company of the Indies, and created fifty thousand new shares.
Page 166 - Cadillac, there had returned to Mobile a young man named St. Denis, who was a relation of Bienville, and whom, two years before, Cadillac had sent to Natchitoches, to oppose the Spaniards in an establishment which it was reported they intended to make in that part of the country. His orders were, to proceed afterward to New Mexico, to ascertain if it would not be possible to establish in that direction, internal relations of commerce between Louisiana and the Mexican provinces, where it was hoped...
Page 287 - Saunsari, about a mile from the camp, on the other side of the Railway line, crossed at the first crossing after the Deolali station near Dr. Bapuji P. Narielwala's Convalescent Home.
Page 192 - France and of Louisiana, the expected results of such commerce as the world had never known before, the reports of hidden treasures concealed in inexhaustible mines of silver and gold, were to be indissolubly united in the annals of history and of folly. On the 13th of August, 1717, the situation of affairs in the colony of Louisiana having been brought before the Council of State', at Versailles, it was decided by that body, presided over by the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France during the minority...
Page 77 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.