. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. e kept in subjectionand had a wholesome fear of his name. But broke outin the colony, by a conflict of authority, and Frontenac wasfor a time recalled to France. He was succeeded first by M. de laBarre, and afterwards by the Marquis de Denonville, the latter ofwhom, by an act of perfidy, coupled with the invasion of the Sen
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. e kept in subjectionand had a wholesome fear of his name. But broke outin the colony, by a conflict of authority, and Frontenac wasfor a time recalled to France. He was succeeded first by M. de laBarre, and afterwards by the Marquis de Denonville, the latter ofwhom, by an act of perfidy, coupled with the invasion of the Senecacountry, roused the Iroquois once more to invade New whole colony was now in the greatest jeopardy, and news ofthis reaching the mother country, Count Frontenac was forllnvithdespatched to Quebec and reinstated in the governorship. WithFrontenacs return, New France once more took heart, for hisactive mind and imperious will infused new life and vigor into theadministration. Unhappily for the country, his first act was to punish the English on the seaboard for inciting the Iroquois to make their fiendish attack on the colony. This he did by fitting out three .separate expeditions to harry the border .settlements in New York, Maine 38. MOMTCALM MAKKirr ILACE, OLTSIDK sT. JOHNS GATE. 39 and New Hampshire. The assault on the English settlements brought its sad tale of reprisal, for thegovernments of New York and Massachusetts organized a combined military and naval expedition forthe invasion of Canada. Owing to the failure of the Indian allies of the English Colonists to join theexpedition, the military section of the invading force accomplished nothing, but the naval contigent, underSir William Phips, wrested Port Royal from the French, and then, sailing up the St. Lawrence, demandedthe surrender of Quebec. The fleet appeared before that stronghold in October, 1690, but the haughtyFrontenac was prepared for its coming. Phips, elated at his success at Port Royal, with
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