Excerpt from The Niagara Region in History Catholic church as they carried the gos pel to the various Indian tribes in the unknown wilderness. To this region came the French, first Officially in the person Of La Salle; afterwards, by their armies, seeking conquest and the con trol of the fur trade. At the mouth Of the Niagara river the French established one Of their most important posts. There they traded with, conferred with and intrigued with the Indians, making firm friends of some Of the tribes and bitter enemies of Others; and during the fourscore years that France held sway on the American continent, this region was a famous part ter domain in the new world. Later on, steadily but surely driving the French before them, and finally totally depriving them Of their posses sions, came the English. Shortly after England became the undisputed owner of the region, the American Revolution began, and within twenty years after England had dispossessed France of this famous territory, she herself was compelled to recognize a new nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.