La Durantaye with Tonty and his cousin Du Lhut led the advance, nor could all Canada have supplied three men better for the work.
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman
Could any base man, could any mere intellectual power, could any man of wealth, could any Napoleon, could any conqueror, have swayed mankind as this simple President of ours and his wife did on that day?
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 12, December, 1881 by Various
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