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It required more resolution on my part to follow the course I did, than to have resisted the rioters. For details of the transactions I refer you to my official letters to the Board, which you will find in the Hudson's Bay House. "Of the settlers, the greater number, including the French Canadians, are our staunch personal friends, while the openly disaffected are but few.
They brought in with them keen, fresh faces and bodies, and an all-important supply of bombs. It was better than a draught of good wine. So it was that the first of the Canadians arrived. Long before the last Australian platoon left that battered line, these first Canadians were almost as tired as they.
Surely Australia and Canada might have kept out of this fight, and allowed us to battle it out with the country we had a quarrel with." "The Canadians and Australians are of British blood." "Well, what if they are? Ain't plenty of the Cape Volunteers who are fighting under President Kruger's banner born of Dutch parents?
All these excellent Canadians, with or without an academic degree, who innocently pride themselves on a proletarian absence of prejudice, are adoptive children of a plutocratic and aristocratic cultivation.
The French troops, apparently about two thousand, lined their different works, and were in general clothed as regulars, except a very few Canadians and about fifty naked Picts or savages, their bodies being painted of a reddish color and their faces of different colors, which I plainly discerned with my glass.
Willcocks was dismissed from office and fell fighting on the American side in the War of 1812. In Lower Canada the clash was more serious. The French Canadians, who had not asked for representative government, eventually grasped its possibilities and found leaders other than those ordained for them.
"It is ill work fighting with discontented soldiers," said Madame Drucour thoughtfully. "Very true, Madame. I often wish we had better material for our army. I abhor the Indians, and distrust the Canadians. But what can we do? France has sore need of all her soldiers for her European wars. What can she do for us here out in the western wilds? She has her hands full at home."
Of the few who had been captured, we are told by French contemporary that they "became victims of the fury of the Indian women," from whose clutches the Canadians tried in vain to save them. Compare N.Y. Col. This letter is printed in his Journals, in which he gives also a supplementary account, containing further particulars.
Why posturize and theorize about platitudes? Canadians are not interested in the Lloyd George theory of the poor plundering the prosperous, because every man or woman who tries in Canada can succeed. He may hoe some long hard rows. Let him hoe! It will harden flabby muscle and give backbone in place of jawbone! Help the innocent children yes! There is a child saving organization in every province.
Next, there were the Canadian regulars and the Canadian militia, both directly under Vaudreuil. Then there were the French sailors, under their own officers, but subject to Vaudreuil. Montcalm had to report to the minister of War in Paris about the French regulars, and to the minister of Marine about the Canadians of both kinds.
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