seized by English, 222.
=Cap Rouge.= On the St. Lawrence, above Quebec. =Index=: =WM= Vaudreuil
orders posting of two hundred men at, 162; Bougainville's headquarters
at, 163; difficulty of crossing the river, 248.
=Cape Breton.= An island at the eastern extremity of Nova Scotia, now
forming part of that province. Discovered by John Cabot in 1497. First
settlement made by the French in 1712. Town of Louisbourg built and
strongly fortified. It was captured by Pepperrell and Warren in 1745;
restored to France by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748; again
captured by the British, under Amherst and Boscawen, 1758. Cape Breton
was a separate colony of Great Britain, 1784-1820, with Sydney (founded
1785) as its capital. In 1820 it was incorporated with Nova Scotia.
=Index=: =Ch= Named St. Lawrence Island by Champlain, 236; Jesuit
mission at, for benefit of Micmacs, 236; maintained until 1659, 237.
_See also_ Louisbourg; Sydney; Nova Scotia. =Bib.=: Brown, _History of
Cape Breton_; Bourinot, _Cape Breton and its Memorials_; Grant, _Cape
Breton, Past and Present_.
=Cape Diamond, Quebec.= =Ch= Fortified, 157.
=Cape St. Vincent.= =Bk= British naval victory of, 10.
=Car Brigade.= =Bk= Formed, 196.
=Carden, Major.= =Dr= Killed in dispersing Ethan Allen's force, 99.
=Cardinal Joseph.= =P= At meeting of Constitutional Committee, 1834, 88.
=Carey.= =Sy= Made deputy inspector-general, 333.
=Carheil, Etienne de.= A Breton, of noble birth. Came to Canada as a
Jesuit missionary in 1666. After two years spent at Quebec, left in 1668
for his mission among the Cayugas. Spent a number of years there in a
zealous but largely fruitless effort to convert the Indians to
Christianity. In 1683 sent to the Hurons at Michilimackinac, and
laboured among that tribe for many years. Finally returned to Quebec,
where he died. =Bib.=: Campbell, _Pioneer Priests of North America_;
_Jesuit Relations_, ed. by Thwaites.
=Cariboo Gold-fields.= =D= History of, 284-289.
=Carignan-Salieres.= The first regiment of regular troops sent to
America from France. Raised in Savoy by the Prince of Carignan in 1644;
employed for some years in the service of the king of France, and after
the peace of the Pyrenees, was regularly incorporated in the French
army. Fought against the Turks in 1664, and ordered to America the
following year. With the original regiment was incorporated the fragment
of a regiment of Germans, the whole under the command of Col
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