 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1884 - 538 pages
...him entirely ; but with great difficulty, by the assistance of some cordials, he was brought to." l At length, carried all the way in his litter, he reached...in March, and was buried with military .honors in the'chancel of Christ Church. If his achievement was not brilliant, its solid value was above price.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 614 pages
...colonial obstinacy and corruption, yet not despising colonial experience and military traditions, • opened the great West to English enterprise, took...France half her savage allies, and relieved the Western frontier from the scourge of Indian war' ; and of Johnson, the genial, resolute, free-living Irishman,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - America - 1910 - 438 pages
...him entirely; but with great difficulty, by the assistance of some cordials, he was brought to." l At length, carried all the way in his litter, he reached...where, after lingering through the winter, he died iii March, and was buried with military honors in the chancel of Christ Church. If his achievement... | |
 | John Andrew Doyle - English essays - 1911 - 386 pages
...with colonial obstinacy and corruption, yet not despising colonial experience and military traditions, "opened the great West to English enterprise, took...France half her savage allies, and relieved the Western frontier from the scourge of Indian war "; and of Johnson, the genial, resolute, free-living Irishman,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1916 - 268 pages
...— not a brilliant achievement, since the French had evacuated the fort in advance — but one whose solid value was above price. It opened the Great West...the western borders from the scourge of Indian war. The outlook was now dark for the French. Though they had held their own triumphantly at Ticonderoga,... | |
 | Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton - World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 104 pages
...pluck; and the solid value of the victory is thus summed up by the American historian, Parkman : — " It opened the great West to English enterprise, took from France half her savage allies, and relieved her Western borders from the scourge of Indian Wars." Fort Duquesne, re-christened Fort Pitt, was thereupon... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - Frontier and pioneer life - 1920 - 354 pages
...Pittsburg he had nothing to do but occupy the fort in peace. Thus, as Francis Parkman says, General Forbes "opened the great West to English enterprise, took...the western borders from the scourge of Indian War." This northern route, with its branches, known as the Forbes Road, the Raystown Road, the Glade Road,... | |
 | Dixon Ryan Fox - History - 1920 - 192 pages
...Fort Duquesne, where a victory wiped out the stain of Braddock's defeat and, in the words of Parkman, "opened the Great West to English enterprise, took...her savage allies, and relieved the western borders of the scourge of Indian war." 1 The French were now distinctly on the defensive. Pitt had planned... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pittsburgh (Pa.) - 1922 - 642 pages
...officers had alienated by their contempt. The general was in himself a host." Parkman says: "If Forbes' achievement was not brilliant, its solid value was...the Western borders from the scourge of Indian war. The frontier population had cause to bless the memory of the steadfast and all-enduring soldier."18... | |
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If his achievement was not brilliant, its solid value was above price. It opened the Great West to English enterprise, took from France half her savage allies, and relieved the western borders from the scourge of Indian war. 
