english-lovers

Updated: July 28, 2026

The French browbeat their savage allies, and, easily inflaming their passions, kept the body of them almost continually at war with the English the Iroquois excepted, not because the latter were English-lovers, or did not understand the aim of English colonization, but because the earliest French had won their undying enmity.

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo