quebecs

Updated: May 9, 2025

But what is an insular fortress, indeed, but an embattled land-slide into the sea from the world Gibraltars and Quebecs? And what a main-land fortress but a few decks of a line-of-battle ship transplanted ashore? They are all one all, as King David, men-of-war from their youth.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War

It must be owned, too, the French Official People are far from scrupulous or squeamish; show energy of management; and are very skilful with the Indians, who are an important item. Canada is all French; has its Quebecs, Montreals, a St. Lawrence River occupied at all the good military points, and serving at once as bulwark and highway.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16