The Good Regiment: The Carignan Salières Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668 - Softcover

Verney, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773518185 ISBN 13: 9780773518186

Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992

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"A rousing good read ... The Carignan-Sali res 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 r giment de Carignan-Sali res repr sente un pilier de la glorieuse l gende des origines du Canada ... Ce livre vaut surtout par une analyse neuve et scrupuleuse et un r el effort pour replacer dans la mentalit du temps la fois le comportement des soldats et les r actions des populations." Andr Corvisier, Revue fran aise d'histoire d'outre-mer "An entertaining chronicle of the only French regiment to serve in Canada in the 1600s." Legion "The Good Regiment is an important study capable of satisfying academics and people with a general interest in Canadian military history." Martin L. Nicolai, Canadian Historical Review

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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 viewed as an elite corps of Catholic crusaders. In The Good Regiment Jack Verney 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.

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• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0773518185
• ISBN 13: 9780773518186
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240