1837, My Connection with it

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R. Renault, 1898 - 38 pages
 

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Page 22 - Brown ! kill him ! kill him ! " leaving me senseless in my blood. In addition to cuts and bruises, the optic nerve of ^my right eye was shattered, and I have never seen with it since.
Page 22 - ... homes, for the troops and the big guns would be soon out. Opening the gates, they sallied in four columns, and rapidly reached the Place d'Armes, for this sudden onslaught cleared the street. Seeing all safe, I turned back alone. It might be called foolhardy; but I was personally on the best of terms with everybody, and when one has been for months in danger, he never thinks of it. At the corner of St Francois Xavier Street a crowd was collecting with whom I exchanged a few words; and, on turning...
Page 22 - So general was the idea abroad that we were organized and ripe for revolt, that Mackenzie, who had planned a rising in rear of Toronto, and an attack on the Capital, sent an agent to communicate his designs, and learn ours. We had none, and not even a committee with whom the agent could consult.
Page 21 - ... orders were that they should cut their way through the crowd and then scatter for their homes, for the troops and the big guns would be soon out. Opening the gates, they sallied in four columns, and rapidly reached the Place d'Armes, for this sudden onslaught cleared the street. Seeing all safe, I turned back alone. It might be called foolhardy; but I was personally on the best of terms with everybody, and when one has been for months in danger, he never thinks of it. At the corner of St Francois...
Page 25 - Davignon, who were being brought in as prisoners from St. Johns. I remarked : " Then the ball has commenced. We must all take our places in the dance ". Gauvin replied : " Yes ; we will be chased no longer. Let us go to St. Charles, established a camp, and be soldiers ". Revived by the day's rest and supper, I assented.
Page 36 - Ours was simply a provincial war of factions. The " Bureaucrats " vanquished us, and the province had to wait a few years for a government based upon " the well-understood wishes of the people.
Page 18 - Lartigue, acting as bishop of the diocese of Montreal, issued a mandement, or pastoral letter, denouncing positively all agitation and agitators. A few priests refused to read it to their parishioners, or did so with an apology. In some of the parishes the men left the church when the reading commenced. The greatest and closing public meeting of the season, was that of the " Five Counties", held at St. Charles, on the 23rd day of October, which was attended by more men of superior position than any...
Page 27 - ... of a strong log-fence, with no military or engineering pententions, when we were driven out. Two old rusty sixpounders, found in a barn, were mounted on sleigh-runners by the village blacksmith, and loaded, for want of other missiles, with scraps of iron. These were our only artillery. Our fame spread abroad. The country people, supposing the time for rising had arrived, flocked in, without waiting for special orders.
Page 24 - ... between our heads. A slight inclination of the barrel would have sent the ball through mine, and there would have been the " sensation " of a suicide, or a murder, as the reporter might think best paying. We faced a furious snow-storm from the north-east. The road then ran along the river. The habitant was very drunk, and fearing he would upset, I drove the horse. After ten days...

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