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Why the common language of North America is not French

When Samuel de Champlain in 1603 sailed up the St. Lawrence River and agreed to support the Algonquian Indians at Tadoussac against the aggression of the Iroquois, he could not foresee that the petty strife  between those two apparently insignificantly hordes of ‘savages’ would one day decide the fate of New France and of the […]