Dorchester's policy with, 314-315. =Md= Ignorance of national affairs, 347; Macdonald's influence with, 347-348. =WM= Their unfortunate position, 131; two thousand desert the camp to protect their families, 152; placed on right of Montcalm's battle-line, 192; dislodge British detachment from Borgia's house, 193, 195; in general defeat make brave rally, 201-203; only those in vicinity of Quebec submit to the British, 237. =L= Père Charlevoix on, 117; Aubert on, 118; Mère de l'Incarnation on, 119; habits, dress, etc., of, 120 _et seq._ =Bib.=: Sulte, _Histoire des Canadiens-Français_; Garneau, _Histoire du Canada_; Bibaud, _Histoire du Canada_; Christie, _History of Lower Canada_; Davidson, _Growth of French-Canadian Race_; Aubert de Gaspé, _Les Anciens Canadiens_; Salone, _La Colonisation de la Nouvelle France: Étude sur les Origines de la Nation Canadienne Française_; Greenough, _Canadian Folk-Life_; Tanguay, _Dictionnaire Généalogique_; Sulte, _Origin of the French-Canadians_ (R. S. C., 1905); Nicholson, _The French Canadian_; Fiske, _New France and New England_; Lambert, _Travels in Canada_. =French Colonization.= =WM= Principle of, 17; Parkman on, 19. =French Language.= =BL= Imperial Parliament repeals clause of Union Act making English the sole official language, 287; Elgin reads speech from the throne in French as well as English, 287. =French Priests.= =Hd= Attempts to introduce, 181, 187. =French Revolution.= =Dr= Its effect in the United States, 272, 273; principles of, disseminated in Lower Canada, 279. =Sy= Effects of, in Britain, 11. =Frobisher, Benjamin.= A partner of the North West Company. =Index=: =Hd= Petition to Haldimand, 261. =Bib.=: _See_ the memorials of Benjamin Frobisher and Joseph Frobisher, his brother, on the western fur trade, in _Archives Report_, 1890, and particularly that of Oct. 4, 1784, giving the early history of the North West Company; _also_ correspondence in _Archives Report_, 1888. =Frobisher, Benjamin.= Probably, according to Masson, a son of Joseph Frobisher. Entered service of North West Company, about 1798. Mentioned as clerk of that Company, in 1804 and 1805, and took a violent part in the troubles between the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies. Captured by Hudson's Bay men in 1819, carried to York Factory and imprisoned; escaped, and in a desperate attempt to make his way back to one of the North West Company posts, died of exhaustion at Cedar Lake. =Bib.=: Wilcocke, _Death of Frobisher_ in Masson, _Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest_.