...Europe, and hostilities spread to the continent and to the colonies of France and England in India, so " black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other on the Great Lakes of North America," alike ignorant of the real causes which set them at variance....

...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America. — Edinburgh Review, April, 1843. BERTRAND BARERE. We have read M. Hippolyte Carnot's Memoires de...

...its vortex, which extended to every continent and reached every sea. In Macaulay's sweeping phrase, " Black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." It was the first and only European war that began on this side of the Ocean. Its close saw France discomfited...

...an oft-quoted, sentence, sums up the consequences of the invasion of Silesia by Frederick the Great: "In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." But that epigram needs to be inverted to become accurate. Great battles were fought on the Rhine and...

...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." Disregarding the justice or injustice of the thought, note the singular force and beauty of this passage,...

...in 1756 because Frederick said nasty things about the Pompadour and Elizabeth of Russia, and that " black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America, in order," as Macaulay says, "that Frederick might roba neighbour whom he had promised to defend,"...

...politics ; " when, in a quarrel purely European in its origin, " black men," to use Macaulay's words, " fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." All, without exception, were actors in the prolonged conflict that began in 1739 concerning the right...

...resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. ibid, In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. On Frederic the, Great. 1842. We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature...

...many yean and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The...men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.1 Silesia bad been occupied without a battle ; but the Austrian troops were advancing to the...

...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America. — Edinburgh Review, April, 1842. BERTRAND BARERE. We have read M. Hippolyte Carnot's Mtmoires de...