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From Quebec to New Orleans; the story of the French in America illustrated, Fort de Chartres
- Title
- From Quebec to New Orleans; the story of the French in America illustrated, Fort de Chartres / by J.H. Schlarman, PH. D.
- Author
- Schlarman, Joseph H. L.
- Publication
- Belleville, Ill., Buechler Publishing Company, 1929.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F1030 .S33 1929 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 569 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits, maps, facsimiles; 24 cm
- Subject
- To 1803
- French > North America
- Indians of North America > Mississippi River Valley
- Indians > Mississippi River Valley
- Français > Amérique du Nord
- Peuples autochtones > Mississippi, Vallée du
- Indians
- Discoveries in geography
- French
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America > Mississippi Valley
- New France > Discovery and exploration
- French > United States
- French > Canada
- Mississippi Valley > History
- Canada > History > To 1763 (New France)
- Mississippi River Valley > History > To 1803
- Louisiana > History > To 1803
- Fort de Chartres Site (Ill.)
- Mississippi River Valley > History
- Nouvelle-France > Découverte et exploration
- Nouvelle-France > Histoire
- Mississippi, Vallée du > Histoire
- Louisiane > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1803
- Canada > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1763 (Nouvelle-France)
- Mississippi, Vallée du > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1803
- Fort de Chartres (Ill.)
- Canada
- Louisiana
- Mississippi River Valley
- North America
- North America > New France
- United States, Louisiana > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter press.
- Maps on lining-papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. Search for passage to the Orient -- II. Pioneer days in New France -- III. The governor and the intendant -- IV. Governor Frontenac -- V. Preparing for a great expedition -- VI. Jolliet and Father -- VII. The prince of French explorers -- VIII. La Salle's dream realized: D'Iberville -- IX. Europe against Louis XIV -- X. Kaskaskia on the Upper Illinois -- XI. Tamarois-Cahokia Mission -- XII. Migrations of the Kaskaskias -- XIII. Hard beginnings of Louisiana -- XIV. The duke of Orleans Regent of France -- XV. John Law: a nation speculating -- XVI. Fort de Chartres -- XVII. Amoung the Missouris -- XVIII. Mining attempts in the Illinois Country: Phillipe Renault -- XIX. War against the foxes -- XX. The British dislike contact of Louisiana with New France -- XXI. M. Perrier supersedes M. de Bienville as Governor of Louisiana -- XXII. The Natchez Massacre -- XXIII. Francois-Marie Bissot de Vincennes -- XXIV. The Chickasaw Wars -- XXV. Stray leaves from old records -- XXVI. The new Fort de Chartres -- XXVII. France and England prepare for the final struggle -- XXIX. Deportation of the Acadians -- XXX. On the Plains of Abraham -- XXXI. After the fall of Quebec: banishment of the Jesuits -- XXXII. The Cahokia Mission property -- XXXIII. British attempts to reach Fort de Chartres blocked by Pontiac -- XXXIV. The French release Fort de Chartres: the New Orleans Rebellion -- XXXV. From Sterling to Clark: Father Meurin and Father Gibault -- XXXVI. The Quebec Act: the colonies rise against England -- XXXVII. The coming of George Rogers Clark -- XXXVIII. Clark captures Kaskaskia and Cahokia -- XXXIX. The winning of Vincennes: Gibault and Dr. Laffont -- XL. "Regulating things in the Illinois" -- XLI. The most daring episode in the Revolutionary War: General Hamilton surrenders to Colonel Clark.
- LCCN
- 30006039
- OCLC
- ocm00684934
- 797177470
- SCSB-248987
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library