Louisiana: ser. 3 Louisiana; its history as a French colonyHarper & Brothers, 1852 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acadians accused act of cession addressed Antonio de Ulloa arrival Aubry Aubry's authority Balize Bienville captain Catholic Majesty cause ceded Chickasaws chiefs Choctaws Christian Majesty citizens colonists colony command commerce court D'Abbadie declared decree despatch Destréhan Duke Duke of Choiseul English execution expenses favor flag force Foucault French government frigate Gayarre German Coast Grand-Pré Havana hundred Illinois Indians informed inhabitants of Louisiana insurrection Intendant Commissary Kerlerec King of France King of Spain King's Lafrénière land laws Lenormant letter livres Louis Louis XV Loyola Marquis of Vaudreuil Masan master ment merchants Milhet minister Mississippi nation Navarro necessary negroes Noyan O'Reilly Orleans paper petition planters possession of Louisiana posts powers present prisoners province punished received remained revolution river Rochemore royal sent ships slaves soldiers Sovereign Lord Spaniards Spanish Governor Spanish officers Superior Council take possession tion town treaty of cession vessels Villeré wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 365 - Louis, by the grace of God, King of France and of Navarre...
Página 176 - Flit o'er the herbless granite ; or to plunge Into the torrent, and to roll along On the swift whirl of the new breaking wave Of river-stream, or ocean, in their flow.
Página 112 - ... of the colony; and that, finally, all these grants, though not confirmed by the French authorities, would be confirmed by his Catholic Majesty.
Página 94 - Spain ceded also to Great Britain the province of Florida, with the fort of St. Augustine and the Bay of Pensacola, as well as all the country he possessed, on the continent of North America, to the east and sputh-east of the River Mississippi.
Página 93 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Página 93 - In order to re-establish peace on solid and durable foundations, and to remove for ever all subject of dispute with regard to the limits of the British and French territories on the continent of America...
Página 343 - But, as the King, whose character is well known, is always inclined to be mild and clement, he has ordered O'Reilly to be informed that his will is, that a lenient course be pursued in the colony, and that expulsion from it be the only punishment inflicted on those who have deserved a more severe one.
Página 185 - I command for the king of France, and, at the same time, I govern the colony as if it belonged to the king of Spain.
Página 207 - ... there are but few virtues. Despotism breeds pusillanimity, and deepens the abyss of vices. Man is considered as sinning before God, only because he retains his free will.
Página 368 - How mortifying is it for Frenchmen, to suffer all the rigors to which their commerce is subjected, whilst a foreign nation, their ambitious rival, openly carries on the trade of the colony, to the prejudice of the nation to which it belongs, which contributed to its establishment, and which is at the expense of it ! We do not fear that it will be objected, that the French alone are not able to supply the continent with all the commodities which it wants.