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Title: A military expedition moving by canoe
 
Type: Image
Online Reference Books
Description: The rivers provided easy routes for military expeditions in New France, thanks to the birch bark canoe.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: The 'French Gate' at Fort Niagara.
 
Type: Image
Online Reference Books
Description: Construction of the so-called 'French Gate' began at Fort Niagara in 1756. Note the coat of arms - from 1725, the royal coat of arms of France was ordered to be put up over the main gates of towns and forts in New France. The fort itself dates back to the 1720s, and was expanded substantially at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Several of the original French structures still stand, incorporated within later British and American works. The whole site is now a New York state park.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: The Staff of the Navy Troops
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: Although the Compagnies franches de la Marine were independent from each other, there was a small group of men responsible for them as a body within New France.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Compagnies franches de la Marine in Canada
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: The organization of the Compagnies franches de la Marine in New France varied depending on the type of company and the period involved. However, one constant was that the companies were kept up to strength in officers, and were usually short of common soldiers.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: One Big Family
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: There was a close liaison between the officers and the commercial class in New France. Marriage alliances cemented families together, and a kind of colonial military caste began to form in the colony in the eighteenth century.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: A New, British, System
 
Type: Document
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Description: Britain did not have a large army during the 18th century. Instead, it depended on the Royal Navy. Regiments in the small British army served in both Britain and its colonies, moving every few years to a new station. There was no special colonial army, such as France had kept in Canada.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Training in a New School
 
Type: Document
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Description: Once established, the tactics of Canadian warfare would persist as long as the French regime. Refinements were made as the regular soldiers of the Compagnies franches de la Marine grew more experienced in the new methods.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Private, 50th (Shirley's) or 51st (Pepperell's) Regiment of Foot, 1754...
 
Type: Image
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Description: Shirley's and Pepperell's Regiments were units of the British army raised in Massachusetts at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Both were largely captured by the French in 1756 while part of the garrison of Oswego. The units were disbanded. This American colonist wears the red coat of a British regular, with red regimental facings. Reconstruction by G. A. Embleton. (Canadian Department of National Defence)
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Fort Prince of Wales
 
Type: Image
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Description: This aerial view shows Fort Prince of Wales, just across the Churchill river from present-day Churchill, Manitoba. Its construction began in 1717. The fort was taken without a fight by a French expedition to Hudson Bay in 1782. It was said to be the only sizeable bastioned stone fort on the Arctic Ocean. Its walls were restored in the 1950s. (Parks Canada)
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Married Soldiers
 
Type: Document
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Description: Despite the regulations to the contrary, it seems many soldiers were part of unofficial marriages. Most sergeants were married, for instance. In the remote posts of the west, some men married Amerindian women - what was called 'marrying country style'.
Site: National Defence
 
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