St. Lawrence River

(noun)

A large waterway flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Examples of St. Lawrence River in the following topics:

  • The French Empire

    • Lawrence River, and to investigate whether Asian lands could be reached from the north .
    • Lawrence River Region had neither abundant gold nor a northwest passage to Asia.
    • Croix, St.
    • Kitts, St.
    • Lawrence River Region for France and established friendly relations with the American Indians.

  • French Explorers

    • In 1534, Francis sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St.
    • Lawrence River.
    • Although through alliances with various Native American tribes the French were able to exert a loose control over much of the North American continent, areas of French settlement were generally limited to the St.
    • Lawrence River Valley.
    • In 1699, French territorial claims in North America expanded still further, with the foundation of Louisiana in the basin of the Mississippi River.

  • New France and Louisiana

    • French fishing fleets, however, continued to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St.
    • Lawrence River.
    • French merchants soon realized the St.
    • Lawrence region was full of valuable fur-bearing animals, especially the beaver, which were becoming rare in Europe.
    • France ceded the rest of New France, except the islands of St.

  • European Empires in North America

    • Raleigh himself never visited North America, although he led expeditions in 1595 and 1617 to South America's Orinoco River basin in search of the legendary golden city of El Dorado.
    • Later, in 1534, Francis sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St.
    • Lawrence River, to investigate whether Asian lands could be reached from the north.
    • He explored some of northern Canada, established friendly relations with the American Indians, and discovered that the St.
    • Lawrence River region had neither abundant gold nor a northwest passage to Asia.

  • The Western Lands

    • Only a few thousand French migrated to Canada; these habitants settled in villages along the St.
    • Lawrence river, building communities that remained stable for long stretches; they did not leapfrog west the way the British did.
    • The Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to rich landowning patroons who brought in tenant farmers to create compact, permanent villages.
    • The French and Indian Wars of the 1760s resulted in a complete victory for the British, who took possession of the lands west to the Mississippi River, which had formerly been claimed by the French but were largely inhabited by American Indian tribes.

  • The War in the North

    • The British scored an important early success when their detachment at St.
    • The British were potentially most vulnerable over the stretch of the St.
    • Lawrence River where it formed the frontier between Upper Canada and the United States.
    • During the early days of the war, there was illicit commerce across the river.
    • Over the winter of 1812 and 1813, the Americans launched a series of raids from Ogdensburg on the American side of the river, which hampered British supply traffic up the river.

  • Exploration and Conquest of the New World

    • Spain formed the settlement of St.
    • St.
    • French habitants, or farmer-settlers, eked out an existence along the St.
    • Lawrence River.
    • The Dutch in New Netherland confined their operations to Manhattan Island, Long Island, the Hudson River Valley, and what later became New Jersey.

  • Burgoyne's Army and the Battle of Saratoga

    • Leger would move down the Mohawk River valley as a tactical diversion.
    • Lieutenant Colonel St.
    • Lawrence and crossed Lake Ontario, arriving at Oswego without incident.
    • They took most of St.
    • St.

  • References

    • Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    • Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
    • Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  • References

    • Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    • Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    • Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
    • Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    • Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.