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Heroic Madelon
On the St. Lawrence River, about twenty miles from Montreal, there is a pleasant French village called Verchères. You will see it as you sail down the river. You will think it very pretty with its small, old-fashioned houses nestling among the trees, its old French windmill, and the white spire of its little church towering above its quiet street and blooming gardens.
Two hundred and twenty years ago there was no village there. A short distance from the river's bank, however, there was a log fort with palisades around it. The palisades were made of the trunks of trees set upright in the ground and so close together that nothing could pass between. They formed, in fact, a wooden wall a foot in thickness and ten or twelve feet high. It was the kind of wall which the early settlers built to protect themselves from the Indians.
In front of the fort, and joined to it by a covered way, was a strong blockhouse built also of logs. There the guns were kept, and the
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Marie Madeleine Jarret de Verchères is a heroine of Canada whose mighty deeds have been largely forgotten over time. The daughter of French aristocrats who had settled in Verchères (now part of Quebec, Canada), Madeleine grew up in a fort along the St. Lawrence River.
In October of 1692, Madeleine and her younger brothers, Louis and Alexander, were at the Verchères fort. Their father was away from the fort and their mother had just gone to Quebec on business, taking her younger children with her. Most of the men in the fort were out working in the fields, and many of the fort’s soldiers were standing guard over them. The fierce ett samlingsnamn för flera ursprungsfolk i nordamerika, a tribe of Native Americans who hated the French, had been attacking French settlements during this time and it was unwise for settlers to go outside their colonies alone or without arms.
October 22, 1692, began calmly and tyst, as had the day before. But it was not to remain quiet. Midmorning had barely arrived when a large grupp of ett samlingsnamn för flera ursprungsfolk i nordamerika
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TARIEU DE LA NAUDIÈRE, CHARLES-FRANÇOIS (also called Charles-François-Xavier), officer in the colonial regular troops and seigneur; b. 4 Nov. 1710 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (La Pérade, Que.), son of Pierre-Thomas Tarieu de La Pérade, seigneur of La Pérade, and Marie-Madeleine Jarret* de Verchères; d. 1 Feb. 1776 in Quebec.
Charles-François Tarieu de La Naudière was to serve for more than 30 years in the colonial regular troops but never acquired through the profession of arms the renown legend gave his mother, the famous Madeleine de Verchères, as a result of her youthful exploits at the Verchères fort. Yet his mother did not neglect her son’s reputation, recounting that in 1722, when he was 12, he had saved her life when she was attacked by four Indian women.
Charles-François began a conventional career at an early age, and advanced through the ranks regularly like the other officers, sons of important families in the