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The conquest of Canada was an event of momentous consequence in American history. It changed the political aspect of the continent, prepared a way for the independence of the British colonies, rescued the vast tracts of the interior from the rule of military despotism, and gave them, eventually, to the keeping of an ordered democracy. Yet to the red natives of the soil its results were wholly disastrous. Could the French have maintained their ground, the ruin of the Indian tribes might long have been postponed; but the victory of Quebec was the signal of their swift decline. Thenceforth they were destined to melt and. | The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian by Francis Parkman 1 The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian by Francis Parkman The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada Author Francis Parkman Release Date March 24 2012 EBook 39253 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC Produced by Suzanne Shell Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian by Francis Parkman 2 Transcriber s Note The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as shown in the TRANSCRIBER S AMEnDmeNtS at the end of the text. This etext presumes a mono-spaced font on the user s device such as Courier New. Words in italics are indicated like this. But the publisher also wanted to emphasize names in sentences already italicized so he printed them in the regular font which is indicated here with The pirates then went to Hispaniola . Obscured letters in the original publication are indicated with . Superscripts are indicated like this SAta Maria. The FOOTNOTES section is located near the end of the text. oe represents the oe ligature. There are two volumes in this etext VOL. I and VOL. II. Author Francis Parkman 1823-1893 . THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC AND THE INDIAN WAR AFTER THE CONQUEST OF CANADA. VOL. I. TO JARED SPARKS . PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY THESE VOLUMES ARE DEDICATED AS A TESTIMONIAL OF HIGH PERSONAL REGARD AND A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT FOR HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES TO AMERICAN HISTORY. Preface TO THE SIXTH EDITION. I chose the .