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The good regiment : the Carignan-Salières Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668 /

In 1665 the Carignan-Salières Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois, whose attacks were strangling the colony's fur-based economy and threatening to destroy its tiny settlements. In the course of its three-year stay in Canada, the regiment established a period of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verney, Jack, 1919-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Canada bound
  • Forts in the wilderness
  • Courcelle's ill-fated march into Mohawk country
  • Questions of peace and war
  • Tracy's splendid victory denied
  • The colony at peace
  • Misdeeds, marriages, and a miracle
  • The end of the mission
  • Appendix A : Equipment
  • Appendix B : Nominal roll.