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Frontenac

/ frɔ̃tnak (e palyo) /

noun

  1. Frontenac (et Palluau), Comte de16201698MFrenchPOLITICS: colonial administrator Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade . 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Frontenac was a good general, and had much influence over the Indians.

In the time of Frontenac there was a palliating motive for such barbarous warfare.

It was even proposed to abandon Chambly and Fort Frontenac, and concentrate all available force to defend the heart of the colony.

Four years later, Count Frontenac sent him to the Sioux country again.

A governor of New York, moreover, even were he as keen and far-seeing as Frontenac himself, would often have been helpless.

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