Richelieu River
Britishnoun
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This passage, first projected in 1902, would follow the Hudson as far as the Champlain Canal, thence through Lake Champlain to the Richelieu River, which would be dredged to the St. Lawrence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burgoyne was to go through Richelieu River and Lake Champlain by boats; thence march to New York by land.3.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Taking eleven Frenchmen with him in a ship's boat, and accompanied by about three hundred savages in their canoes, he proceeded as far as the mouth of the Richelieu River.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur
On reaching the northern end of Lake Champlain, however, they obtained a small canoe, in which they descended the Richelieu River, and thus reached Sorel.
From The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France by Alfred H. Engelbach
Unhappily he was immediately called upon to crush another outbreak of the rebels, in November, 1838, in the counties watered by the Richelieu River, and in the district immediately south of Montreal.
From Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 by Sir John George Bourinot
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