HISTORIC HANDBOOK

OF THE

NORTHERN TOUR.





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HISTORIC HANDBOOK

OF THE

NORTHERN TOUR.



LAKES GEORGE AND CHAMPLAIN; NIAGARA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC.



BY

FRANCIS PARKMAN.




BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1899.





Copyright, 1885,
By Francis Parkman.




University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.





This book is a group of narratives of the most striking events of ourcolonial history connected with the principal points of interest to thetourist visiting Canada and the northern borders of the United States.

The narratives are drawn, with the addition of explanatory passages,from "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," "Pioneers of France in the New World,""The Jesuits in North America," "Count Frontenac," and "Montcalm andWolfe."


Boston, 1 April, 1885.





CONTENTS.


LAKE GEORGE AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

Page
Discovery of Lake Champlain3
Discovery of Lake George9
Battle of Lake George16
A Winter Raid40
Siege and Massacre of Fort William Henry45
Battle of Ticonderoga65
A Legend of Ticonderoga86


NIAGARA.

Siege of Fort Niagara93
Massacre of the Devil's Hole98


MONTREAL.

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