In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,—the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.


Pt. II, Ch. 13 Discovery of Lake Huron - Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

Francis Parkman Quotes

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill...

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill...

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill...

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill...