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Subject: History Facts
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:12:52 EDT
" In 1690, Count Frontenac made the statement, "Je nay point de reponse a
faire a votre general que par la bouche de mes canons et a coups de fuzil"/ " I
will answer your general through the muzzles of my canon and muskets," in
response to the demand that he surrender Quebec. The general in question, Sir
William Phips, failed to take the city."
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