Free eBook

The Conquest of New France: A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars

By George MacKinnon Wrong (Chronicles of America #10)

2019-02-28 01:50:29

Many centuries of European history had been marked by war almost ceaseless between France and England when these two states first confronted each other in America. The conflict for the New World was but the continuation of an age-long antagonism in t ... Read more
Many centuries of European history had been marked by war almost ceaseless between France and England when these two states first confronted each other in America. The conflict for the New World was but the continuation of an age-long antagonism in the Old, intensified now by the savagery of the wilderness and by new dreams of empire. There was another potent cause of strife which had not existed in the earlier days. When, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the antagonists had fought through the interminable Hundred Years' War, they had been of the same religious faith. Since then, however, England had become Protestant, while France had remained Catholic. When the rivals first met on the shores of the New World, colonial America was still very young. Less

Book Details

File size148.134 KB
Print pages254
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781347920497
George MacKinnon Wrong, FRSC (June 25, 1860 – June 29, 1948) was a Canadian clergyman and historian. Born at Grovesend in Elgin County, Canada West (now Ontario), he was ordained in the Anglican pri...

Reviews

Sign in to write a review

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free