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Author : Parkman Francis
Title : France and England in North America 6 A half-century of conflict Volume 1 and 2
Year : 1892

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Preface. This book, forming Part VI. of the series called France and England in North America, fills the gap between Part V., " Count Frontenac," and Part VII, " Montcalm and Wolfe ; " so that the series now forms a continuous history of the efforts of France to occupy and control this continent. In the present volumes the nature of the subject does not permit an unbroken thread of narrative, and the unity of the book lies in its being throughout, in one form or another, an illustration of the singularly contrasted characters and methods of the rival claimants to North America. Like the rest of the series, this work is founded on original documents. The statements of secondary writers have been accepted only when found to conform to the evidence of contemporaries, whose writings have been sifted and collated with the greatest care. ...