Daumont de Saint Lusson Quotes
It ordered to us to plant the cross with the first village, to produce there the fruits of Christianity, and the ecu of France, to ensure it the authority of Its Majesty and the French domination; having made our first unloading at the village of Holy-Marie-of-Sault, we made assemble the close and distant nations, fourteen, to which we made interpret our commission by the sior Nicolas Perrot, making draw up a cross and a wood of cedar to which we raised the weapons of France, while saying, by three times and aloud, the name of Louis XIV: We take possession of all the country until the Sea-of-South
The proclamation was witnessed by O C Gagnon and Louis Jolliet.
Daumont de Saint Lusson, ?-1673*, French Civil Officer and Police Chief of North America, Proclamation, Sault Ste. Marie, June 14, 1671
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The Sultan responded (See {612151}) The King should have worried. The Sultan’s troops soundly defeated the French and then beheaded tens of thousands of French prisoners. The King was captured and ransomed.
Xerxes was as the Texans say, “All hat and no cattle.” He had delusions of grandeur and was quite unsuccessful as a conqueror.
Thompson sailed into Phnom Phen in a gunboat. With armed “bodyguards” he forced his way into the palace, manhandled the king’s secretary who tried to prevent him from seeing King Norodom, and presented the treaty to the king who signed it. Cambodia had sought French “protection” from the two great powers adjacent, Vietnam and Thailand—see {601401}. In addition to the pressure of the two large neighbors, Norodum’s government was extremely weak and the French were ready to back a rival Sisowath. One of the ironies of this egregious example of gunboat diplomacy is that one of the first things the French did under the clause was to abolish Cambodian slavery. There were a few good things that occurred with most colonialism. The argument has always been was the good worth the bad that inevitably came with an undemocratic form of government.
When the British first colonized South Africa, the area they used was not inhabited or very sparcely so. However, some Black tribes (including the Zulus) were moving from the north and themselves were colonizing or annexing the sparcely populated areas to their kingdom. The British were most interested in Trading so did not have large land asperations. The Dutch white Boer Africanners, in contrast, wanted to farm the lands and use the range for their cattle. They wanted the land. The English policy was that there would be friendly relations with the Black tribes surrounding their Cape Colony and no one should take their land. However the Boers started attacking the Black areas and seizing their farms and villages. At first, the English assumed that the Blacks would easily be able to ward off the invasion as the Afrikanners had no professional troops like the British. However, the neighboring native tribes were not very warlike or good fighters. They were being overrun by the Zulus coming from the North and the Boers from the South. The British Government had a real problem in that they would have to have British soldiers fight the white Afrikanners if they wanted to stop the illegal white invasions. This was the root of the Boer War where the British would be fully at war with the Africanners.
William the Conqueror. The King had come ashore and fell forward in the sand on his face and hands. Showing a sense of humor, he hade this statement. Shortly thereafter he took England militarily at Hastings and seized it politically.
Commenting in the Senate in 1952 on the use of the cross in Dwight Eisenhower's anti-Communist "crusade" that resulted in the words "under God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance:
There had been an era whereby the French military had conquered much of Africa without the approval of the civilian authorities.
In 1832 the President sent Edmund Roberts, a New Hampshire sea captain, to arrange commercial treaties with Asian countries such as Burma, Indo-China, Siam and Japan:
Felipe, capitalizing on the death of the Portuguese King, declared in 1580 his intention of uniting the Iberian peninsula under his rule.
The Sultan responded (see related quote): The King should have worried. The Sultan’s troops soundly defeated the French and then beheaded tens of thousands of French prisoners. The King was captured and ransomed.
See {611922} and {611923}. The Sultan proved prophetic. His troops soundly defeated the French and then beheaded tens of thousands of French prisoners. The King was captured and ransomed. The Sultan however, despite his victory, was overthrown and killed.
Christian Neophytes were Indians who claimed that they had converted to Christianity. The French initially banned giving or selling firearms to the Indians of North America. However in 1640, they made an exception to provide arms to the Huron Indians who they thought had converted to Christianity. Four years later the Jesuits were using guns as the major motivation for conversion of Indians. The hypocrisy of using weapons of war to attract converts to a religion of peace gave way to the incredible success that the trading of guns for souls had achieved. The French military also thought that the armed Indians could be used as allies in the coming battle with England for control of North America. The English then armed their Indian allies, and the French and Indian Wars saw armed Indians on both sides.
The contrast between the Christian piety memorializing the taking of the city and then as soon as the ceremonies were complete the pillaging and plundering, is dramatic. Religion controlled and permeated the military thoroughly at the time—even to the organization of un-Christian acts like plunder and murder of civilians.
The Teutons were the Germanic tribes who were very warlike. His prediction of German war and aggression was demonstrated by WWI and WWII. The French Revolution diminished the influence of religion throughout Europe.
He was one of the world’s greatest polymaths who among his other accomplishments was the “Father of Sociology” and was the leading Islamic intellectual of his era. This is a very important quotation because ibn Khalidun was such a monumental and respected Islamic intellect. He confirms the history that Islam was spread both by persuasion and by force. He also makes the distinction between Islam and other religions regarding war, Finally, the last sentence characterizes Islam as an aggressive, expansionist force that is a potential danger to all non-Muslim states.
