France built its best colony ...

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.
 Francis Parkman

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We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.
 Francis Parkman
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
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The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.
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When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.
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The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?
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