Excerpt from The Story of Our Country, Vol. 1 of 6: A History of Canada for Four Hundred Years Through the shaded aisles of primeval forests, over thousands of miles of lake and river and wilderness, echoed the sounds of that hundred years of war between French and English for the possession of a Continent. Out of these struggles developed the striking incidents of the Revolutionary period and the first conflict for Canadian independence of the United States; out of these new conditions came the memories of a Canadian war in r8r2 which was fought for freedom as fully, and marked by episodes as heroic, as were the conflicts of ancient Greek or Spartan, modern Pole or Belgian, the men of Scotland or Ireland or England. 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.