NAPOLEON: 'EVERYTHING IN CHRIST ASTONISHES ME'

Spain claimed most of North America by virtue of first discovery by Desoto and Coronado. Since the area had little gold, it was of little use to the Spanish empire, and thus was sparsely settled for centuries.

Beginning in 1673, the French missionary priest Jacque Marquette and French explorer Louis Joliet, came down from Canada to Lake Michigan to the Fox River to the Mississippi, as far south as Arkansas. In 1699, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, started the first French settlement, at Fort Maurepas (now Ocean Springs, Mississippi).

Napoleon continued: “Everything in Christ astonishes me. His spirit overawes me, and His will confounds me. Between Him and whoever else in the world there is no possible term of comparison; He is truly a Being by Himself. His ideas and His sentiments, the truth which He announces, His manner of convincing, are not explained either by human organization or by the nature of things. Truth should embrace the universe. Such is Christianity, the only religion which destroys sectional prejudices, the only one which proclaims the unity and the absolute brotherhood of the whole human family, the only one which is purely spiritual; in fine, the only one which assigns to all, without distinction, for a true country, the bosom of the Creator, God.”

Napoleon concluded: “Christ proved that He was the Son of the Eternal by His disregard of time. All His doctrines signify one only and the same thing – eternity. What a proof of the divinity of Christ! With an empire so absolute, he has but one single end – the spiritual melioration of individuals, the purity of the conscience, the union to that which is true, the holiness of the soul …

“Spain claimed most of North America by virtue of first discovery by Desoto and Coronado. Since the area had little gold, it was of little use to the Spanish empire, and thus was sparsely settled for centuries.”

not really- I end to disagree- viz-
Between years 1500 and 1608, 744 Spanish ships were sailing up down the St. Lawrence River - Between Cartier`s and Roberval`s exits 1545-1547 and 1608, there appears to have been zero French exploration ships sent by the king of France to the St. Lawrence River basin until Champlain 1609 decided to come down Lake Champlain-7

1511 Queen Dona Juana sends Spanish expedition under Juan de Aggramont to NE coast of America ; ”another record speaks of a voyage of Jean de Agramonte about 1511.”
1524 `Gomez [Stephen], a Portuguese in the employ of Spain, sailed along the coast of Nova Scotia and New England in 1524.
1527 Spanish ships on the St. Lawrence River-
1546 Spanish ships were raiding the the northeast coast of America and down the St. Lawrence River, capturing N.A.’s to bring as slaves. When the French arrived, they were surprised that the N.A.’s were calling an island in the St. Lawrence by a Spanish name. Spanish River is now the harbor of Sydney on the Island of Cape Breton. French fur traders at Tadoussac since 1480: ``Le 26 du mois (Avril) arrivasmes a` Tadoussac ou` il y avoit des vaisseaux qui y estoient arrivez des le 18 ce que qui ne s`estoit veu il y avoit plus de 60 ans.``
1544 Jacabo de Ibaceta of Spain sails for Newfoundland
1547 Francis I of france dies- all New France exploration stops.
1553 June 3 Proposal for the Armada of Spaniard Luis de Carvajal to escort Spanish ships to NE coast of America

1557 July 15 King of Spain gives orders for ships from Guipuzcoa, Vizcaya and the Four Cities to sail to NE coast
1557 Cartier dies Sept 15
1574 Spanish ships sail to the NE coast of America
1580 Spanish ship off Newfoundland
1586 300 Spanish, French, English and Dutch ships off NE coast

1608 CANNON BATTLE BETWEEN FRENCH AND SPANISH SHIPS ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER

1608 First armed conflict and first casualties in America over furs between French, Spanish and Basques on the St. Lawrence River: `De Monts named Champlain his lieutenant and, in the spring of 1608, sent to America two vessels under the command of Pontgrave` and Champlain. One ship sailed to Port Royal and St. Croix, and was gleefully received by the Indians, from whom a large supply of furs was obtained. Pontgrave` and Champlain then went up the St. Lawrence to Tadoussac, where they found many savages with quantities of pelts. They met there, also, a number of Spanish and Basque vessels; in trying to drive them away, Pontgrave` was wounded and his cannon captured.

1609 June 2 Spanish vessels bound for NE coast ordered to be well-armed against English pirates

1622 Thirty-five French, Spanish and Dutch fur trading ships along New England coast
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Footnotes

126. Phillips, Vol. I, pp.17-18, cites Cartier, Jacques, Voyages, Vol. I, pp.33-34; Hakluyt, Principal
Navigations, Vol.VIII, pp.183-268 (1600); Biggar cites Michelant et Rame`, Voyage de
Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534, 2e partie: Documents Inedits, pp.3-5, Paris, 1865;
Michelant et Ramé, Relation Originale du Voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534
(Paris, 1867), pp.27 ff, p. 11 [ship of Rochelle]; 1534 voyage Ms. In Bibliothèque Nationale (Coll.
Moreau, Vol. 841, pp.52-68); also in Baxter, J.P., Memoir of Jacques Cartier; 2nd voyage: 3
copies Ms, A, B, & C, in Bibliothèque Nationale, No. 5589, source 1545, Brief Recit &c, repr.
1683, Paris, edit. D`Avezac; in Ramusio`s Navigationi et Viaggi, Vol. III, Venice, 1556, repr.
1565; trans. English by Florio, John, A Shorte and briefe narration, &c, London, 1580; Ramusio,
Discours du Voyage &c., repr., Rouen,1598; repr. Michelant, Paris, 1865 (R. du Petit Va.); repr.
Belleforest, L` Histoire Universelle, Paris, 1877; in Ternaux-Compans, Archives des Voyages,
Paris, 1841; Gagong, Crucial Maps...pp.248-249
106. Ganong, p.197
168. Biggar, p.75, cites Laverdiere, iii, p.207
174. Biggar, p.181, cites Coleccion Vargas Ponce, III, no.
177. Biggar, p.183, cites Coleccion Vargas Ponce, III, No.9
191. Biggar, p.184, cites Coleccion Navarrete, Deposito Hidrografico, Madrid, Vol.28, No.22
208. Biggar, p.184, cites Prowse, History of Newfoundland, p.84, No.1
226. Biggar, p.24, cites Thevet, Biblioth. Nat. MS.fr.15452 fol. 145
289. Phillips, I, p.39, cites Lescarbot, Histoire, Vol.III, pp.3,5; Champlain, Works, Vol.II, pp.8-9, Vol.IV,
p.37
290. Phillips, I, p.39, cites Champlain, Works, Vol.II, p.91, Vol. IV, p.37
882. Biggar, p.194, cites Coleccion Vargas Ponce, III Nos. 36 and 37
406. Phillips, I, p.71, cites Alexander Young, Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of
Massachusetts Bay, p.5

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Biggar, H.P., The Early Trading Companies of New France, 1st edit., 1901, Toronto: University
of Toronto Library; reprint, Clifton, NJ: Augustus M. Kelly Publishers, 1972; New York: Sentry
Press
Ganong, Crucial Maps

Phillips, Paul Chrisler, The Fur Trade, 2 vols., Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press,
1961
[There`s 2 rivers only 12 miles away from my farm in northern NY State that have Spanish names from before 1609 -dutch archives in Alban, NY]

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