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The Good Regiment. The Carignan Salieres Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668.
Jack Verney
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Description for The Good Regiment. The Carignan Salieres Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668.
Paperback. In 1665 the Carignan-Salieres Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois. This book sets the record straight, revealing that the Carignan-Salieres Regiment was not a group of saintly knights but caroused, womanized, and gambled in off hours just like any other infantry regiment. Num Pages: 240 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JD; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JWD; JWTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
In 1665 the Carignan-Salieres Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois, whose attacks were strangling the colony's fur-based economy and threatening to destroy its tiny settlements. In the course of its three-year stay in Canada, the regiment established a period of relative peace that allowed the French to consolidate their foothold on the north shore of the St Lawrence, establish new settlements across the river, and rebuild the economy to its former prosperity. Promoted by Abbe Lionel Groulx as a body of chosen men sent to do God's work, the regiment came to be ... Read more
In 1665 the Carignan-Salieres Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois, whose attacks were strangling the colony's fur-based economy and threatening to destroy its tiny settlements. In the course of its three-year stay in Canada, the regiment established a period of relative peace that allowed the French to consolidate their foothold on the north shore of the St Lawrence, establish new settlements across the river, and rebuild the economy to its former prosperity. Promoted by Abbe Lionel Groulx as a body of chosen men sent to do God's work, the regiment came to be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773518186
SKU
V9780773518186
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Reviews for The Good Regiment. The Carignan Salieres Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668.
"A rousing good read ... The Carignan-Salières are no longer tools of historians to perpetuate a 'golden haze' of legend, but real soldiers with their own page of history." Major Ian McCulloch, The Beaver "Le régiment de Carignan-Salières représente un pilier de la glorieuse légende des origines du Canada ... Ce livre vaut surtout par une analyse neuve et ... Read more