181 examples of champlain in sentences

We rose with the dawn the next morning, and before the sun was above the hills we were on our way down the lake, to separate as we struck the Rackett; the Doctor and Smith to return by the way of Keeseville and the Champlain, and Spalding and myself to drift down that pleasant stream to Pottsdam, and thence to the majestic St. Lawrence, to spend a fortnight among the "Thousand Islands" of that noble river.

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But it was not till 1608 that a party under Champlain made the first permanent settlement on the river, at Quebec.

But these tribes were the bitter enemies of the Iroquois, who dwelt in what is now central New York, and when, in consequence of this alliance, the French were summoned to take the warpath, Champlain, with a few followers, went, and on the shore of the lake which now bears his name, not far from the site of Ticonderoga, he met and defeated the Iroquois tribe of Mohawks in July, 1609.

From the day when Champlain, in 1609, joined his Huron-Algonquin neighbors and went with them on the warpath against the Iroquois, the French held to the policy of making friends with the Indians.

But the fight with Champlain, in 1609, by turning them into implacable enemies of the French, had rendered them all the more tolerant of the Dutch and the English, while their complete conquest and subjugation of the Delawares, or Lenni Lenape, prepared the way for the easy settlement of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The meaning of this chain of forts stretching from New Orleans and Mobile to Lake Champlain and Montreal, was that the French were determined to shut the English out of the valley of the Mississippi, and to keep them away from the shores of the Great Lakes.

Lake George, Lake Champlain, and the St. Lawrence River.

One was to go north from New York to Lake Champlain, take the French fort at Crown Point, and move against Quebec.

Montreal taken.%Meanwhile Congress, fearing that Sir Guy Carleton, who was governor of Canada, would invade New York by way of Lake Champlain, sent two expeditions against him.

One, under Richard Montgomery, went down Lake Champlain, and captured Montreal.

Meantime an attempt had been made to cut the states in two by getting possession of New York state from Lake Champlain to New York city, and an army under Burgoyne came down from Canada.

Lucretia Maria Davidson was born September 27, 1808, at Plattsburgh, on Lake Champlain.

The Green Mountains extend up and down, through the middle of Vermont, from north to south, and beyond these mountains, on the western side of the state, is lake Champlain, which extends from north to south also, and forms the western boundary.

Thus, the Green Mountains divide the state into two great portions, one descending to the eastward, toward Connecticut river, and the other to the westward, toward lake Champlain.

There are, therefore, two great ways of access to Vermont from the states south of it; one up the Connecticut river on the eastern side, and the other along the shores of lake George and lake Champlain on the western side.

Champlain, northwest voyager.

WILSON, CHARLES B. Champlain, northwest voyager.

and the Ambassador of Holland 151 Marshal Saxe 154 Battle of Fontenoy 157 Arrest of Charles Edward 166 Dupleix 168 La Bourdonnais 170 Dupleix meeting the Soudhabar of the Deccan 174 Death of the Nabob of the Carnatic 174 Lally at Pondicherry 184 Champlain 190 Death of General Braddock 203 Death of Wolfe 209 Madame de Pompadour 215 Attack on Fort St. Philip.

* DEATH VALLEY IN '49 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PIONEER CHAPTER I. St. Albans, Vermont is near the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, and only a short distance south of "Five-and-forty north degrees" which separates the United States from Canada, and some sixty or seventy miles from the great St. Lawrence River and the city of Montreal.

But when he reached the southern end of Lake Champlain, and started on his march to the Hudson, his troubles began.

General Macomb, with a naval force under McDonough, was to hold the line of Lake Champlain.

The British plan was to invade New York by way of Lake Champlain.

McDonough's Victory at Plattsburg, 1814.General Prevost, with a fine army of veterans, marched southward from Canada, while a fleet sailed up Lake Champlain.

Those sheep were as many thorns in our flesh that day we made off in the deep woods from Lake Champlain.

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