The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-08

wrought herOlcally. put at ms ueatn,
 there was at Quebec only a garrison of 200 soldiers living on supple brought from France. His patience herosim covered disappointment and failure are worthy of high honor.
 Had he been properly supported by
 France, he would have colonized d | Canada from Quebec to Florida. He
 gave his name to the beautiful lake 1 lying between Vermont and New York. After being for some pris- | oner in England, he went to France,
 having been forced July 1929. to sur
 and, in 1633, he again came. to New l France, and there on Christmas Day
 1885, this great explorer and coloniz-
 CT died.
 Mississippi's Discoverer.
 1 "A truer type of the French adven-
 comes upon the stage. 1866. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, represents | France in America. He was a scion
 of a noble house. and was born in Rouen, November 22. 1643. In him
 strength and weakness were striking | 1y blended. He came at first as a 1 trader in furs, and to be the owner I of great tracts of land. But his dis
 covery of the mouth of the Mississip-
 pi made him immortal. He had a
 seigniory on the St. Lawrence. which
 he named La Chine. This name is a l | above the chute was the pathway to l China. With much regret he aban- doned the hope of reaching China; but his actual discoveries were scarce
 ly less bold than was his enthusiastic dreom regarding China. He discov-
 cred the Ohio and the Great Lakes.
 He was the first European, the first | white man, to descend the Mississippi
 to its mouth. This achievement was
 in 1882. In honor of his king. he
 gave the name Louisiana to the vast | region east and west of the great riv-
 CT; and he took possession of this 1 territory in the name of his sovereign.
 He conceived the idea of construct
 ing a chain of forts from the St. Law
 renee to the Gulf of Mexico. His
 France might have been master of
 the New World. had the Roman
 church permitted the Huguenots,
 who were driven out of France by the
 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
 to settle in the untrodden wilderness
 fiuenced by this church, would not allow any Protestant to set foot on | this virgin sotl The Roman church
 robbed France of New France. Mis- His story is wildly and thrilling told 1 by Parkman, in his book. La Sale ! Infirmities of temper and inordinate vanity aroused the enmity of La Sal les co-workers. He returned to France to secure men and means to
 colonize> the territory he had discov-
 cred. But quarrels between him and
 the ships to France. La salle failed ] Mississippi. He wandered from place to place largely friendless and hopeless. He finally determined to return to Canada with 16 of his men, in hY1f " a of the Trinity river in Texas. two of his men murdered his nephew, and then brutally shot him from ambush. Thus perished the heroic but un- | will ever be associated with the mem orable discovery of the Mississippi. Other great Frenchmen followed: among them was Pierre Le Moyne
 d. Ibervtlle, and his younger brother
 Bienville. who. in TIT. laid the foundation of New Orleans. World-Wi Movements.
 ''It is now 17b6. England. on the
 18th of May, declared war against France. Europe was tremb bling with
 the rum blings of the coming earth
 quake. Britain, France. Prussia and Russia are entering upon fierce con- 1icts. Three women controlled the
 forces of three great nations, Austria,
 Russia, and France. These three wo-
 men are Elizabeth of Russia. Maria
 Theresa of Austria, and Madame de Pompadour of France. These three i women hated Frederick the Great. Virtually the whole world is now to
 be shaken with fierce conflicts. There is material enough at this point for a
 reference which time permits me to
 make. We have entered upon the period known as the Seven Years War The wars of this period deter
 mined the destinies of mankind for
 centuries. We must, however. hold our discussion to events connected
 with our special topic.
 Fort Duquesne.
 we follow, for a time, the heroic
 Braddock, the British general who. in
 1755, led an expedition against Fort Duquesne. It is a toilsome journey and through dense forests. Near the
 point where Willis Creek joined the Potomac, stood Fort Cumberland. an enclosure of logs set upright in the ground, pierced with loopholes and armed with small cannon. We see Braddock at this old trading station, now transformed into military post.
 With him is Colonel George Washing ton, whom he had invited to become a member of his military family. Braddock was unf1tted both by train ing and temperament to command provincials and to fight Indians He despised both. Three hundred axe men led the way, cutting trees and clearing the road. Through forests old as the world the army moves. The progress is slow: the danger is constant. Fever smites the men. At tacks of the French and Indians are always imminent. Washington is the constant guide and the loyal friend.
 "For Duquesne is at the point of land where the A1legeny and the Monogahela join to form the Ohio; there now stands the prosperous city of Pittsburg. Besides the French troops and Canadians. so Indian war riors were there to defend the fort. Braddock, after his trying journey, reached the fateful scene, July. 1775. Washington afterward spoke with great admiration of the inspiring the blue-coated virginians. the mounted officers, the cavalry, the naval detachment, the solemn for ests, and the rippling streams. The forest swarmed with French and 1n- dians The air was rent with their wild cries, while bullets whistled from foes under cover of the trees Braddock was brave but unused to such warfare, and unwilling to take advice. The Virginians were equal to the emergency; they could fight like Indians behind the trees. Brad dock scorned to have his regulars fight behind trees. and beat them back with his sword. In a little time the ground was strewn with dead and wounded men. The yelis of unseen savages filled the air. Storming like a madman. Braddock lashed from