The Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of FrontenacColby, Charles W. (Charles William)
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The Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of Frontenac
Colby, Charles W. (Charles William)
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de, 1620-1698
Laval, François de, bishop of Quebec, 6-7, 8-9, 34, 51-3; and
Frontenac, 51-3, 55, 58-63; and the brandy traffic, 61-2.
Le Ber, Jacques, 47-8.
Le Moyne, Charles, interpreter, 43, 95, 97, 102. See Bienville,
Iberville, and Sainte-Hélène.
Louis XIV, his interest in New France, 30, 50, 60, 62, 67, 85, 117; and
the Church, 56, 58.
Marlborough, Duke of, 90.
Mazarin, Cardinal, 21.
Meulles, intendant, and La Barre, 91, 92, 97, 102.
Michilimackinac, 13, 78.
Mohawks, the, 145.
Mohegans, the, 145.
Montpensier, Duchesse de, 22-23; and Frontenac, 24.
Montreal, its position in New France, 39-40, 141.
New Amsterdam, and the Iroquois, 89.
New England States, contrasted with New France, 15, 130-4; and the
Iroquois, 89-90, 104-5, 151-2; at war with New France, 123-30, 138,
151-152; and the Abnaki raids, 147-8.
New France, in 1672, 1, 8, 14-16, 83; status of the governor and
intendant, 5, 9-10, 11; the fur trade, 8; the seigneurial system,
11-12, 14-15; the coureurs de bois, 12-13; the creation of parishes,
58-61; the brandy traffic, 61-3; population and trade during 1673-83,
84-5; the Iroquois peril, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94, 97, 111, 137-40, 142-143,
149; in 1689, 114, 115; at war with New England, 119-123, 128-30,
145-6; her weakness, 130-4; from 1690 to 1693, 142-4, 150; and Acadia,
147-8.
Oneidas, the, 149. See Iroquois.
Onondagas, the, 98-103, 149. See Iroquois.
Ottawas, the, 139, 140, 141.
Ourehaoué, a Cayuga chief, 137.
Parkman, on Frontenac, 36, 160; on Hertel, 120-1.
Perrot, François, governor of Montreal, 39-40; his quarrel with
Frontenac, 45-50.
Perrot, Nicolas, interpreter, 13 n., 106, 138-9, 140, 150.
Phips, Sir William, his attack on Quebec, 123-30.
Portneuf, his raid, 119.
Port Royal, surrendered to Phips, 124, 127.
Quebec, 91; Phips's siege of, 123-30.
Récollets, the, and Frontenac, 53-4, 55.
Repentigny de Montesson, 118.
Richelieu, Cardinal, minister to Louis XIII, 18-19, 20, 21, 131.
Rouville, Hertel de, 118.
Ryswick, Peace of, 151.
Saint-Castin, Baron de, raids New England settlements, 147, 148, 150.
Sainte-Hélène, Jacques Le Moyne de, 118, 119, 129, 150.
Schenectady, raided by the French, 119, 121, 122, 140.
Schuyler, John, his abortive raid into New France, 123, 145.
Schuyler, Peter, his invasion defeated at Laprairie, 145-6.
Seignelay, Marquis de, 70.
Senecas, the, 107-8. See Iroquois.
Sovereign Council, composition and jurisdiction of, 9-10; and
Frontenac, 65-8.
Sulpicians, the, in New France, 39, 53-4.
Superior Council, 9. See Sovereign Council.
Talon, Jean, 6, 34; supports Perrot against Frontenac, 50.
Thury, Father, encourages Abnaki raids on English settlements, 147-8.
Tonty, Henri de, explorer, 76-7, 92, 93, 106, 109, 150.
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, 6 and note.
Urfé, Abbé d', supports Perrot against Frontenac, 50.
Valrennes, at Laprairie, 146.
Vaudreuil, governor of New France, 81.
Verchères, Madeleine de, 144.
West India Company, its trading monopoly, 84.
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