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The Battle of Tours

This series has four easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Western Europe at This Time.IntroductionThe people of Islam had

. . . from them the voyager learned that the great lake of the Hurons was close at hand. The headline "Lake Huron Discovered" was not for Champlain

In Champlain alone was the life of New France. By instinct and temperament he was more impelled to the adventurous toils of exploration than to the

Thus did New France rush into collision with the redoubted warriors of the Iroquois. Here the long conflict France versus Iroquois began.Our

The scene is a familiar one to many a tourist; and perhaps, standing at sunset on the peaceful strand, Champlain saw what a roving student of this

While Pontgrave remained in charge of Quebec, Champlain entered at once on his long meditated explorations, by which, like La Salle seventy years

On the strand between the water and the cliffs Champlain's axemen fell to their work. Champlain founds Quebec and makes history.Our special

His work done, and, as he thought, the French settlements of Acadia effectually blotted out, Acadia decimated, Argall set sail for Virginia.Our

The story of the first conflict between France and Great Britain in North America began with the one about Argall's expedition.Our special