About the year 1780 certain short cuttings with locks available for canoes and bateaux were made at few points on the St. Lawrence where the rapids were wholly impassable.
Everything was ready for the march on Montreal and Montgomery advanced to La Prairie, there collecting all the boats and bateaux available for the transportation of the troops across the river to the city.
Goods for Upper Canada were carted to Lachine and from there taken up the Haldimand Canals in bateaux about thirty-five feet long and 5½ feet beam, built of the type of a modern raft boat with pointed bow and stern.
He spiked the guns and burned the bateaux he could not use and caused the munitions, provisions and baggage to be loaded on the three armed sloops.
On the fourth of July, he had embarked at Fort Frontenac with four hundred bateaux and canoes, crossed the foot of Lake Ontario, and moved westward along the southern shore.
The Indians and Canadians carried the canoes to the navigable water above, and gangs of men dragged the bateaux up the portage-path on rollers.
On the twelfth, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Denonville began his march, leaving four hundred men in a hastily built fort to guard the bateaux and canoes.
Most of the troops and Canadians marched through the matted woods along the banks; while the bateaux and canoes were pushed, rowed, paddled, or dragged forward against the current.
Unable to procure assistance in time from Quebec, he succeeded, by stratagem, in constructing some bateaux and escaping with the whole colony secretly down the river to Oswego, and thence to Montreal.
He therefore had small bateaux made in the garret of the Jesuit's house, and kept them concealed when finished.
The other bateaux were moored in shallow estuaries, while aid was rendered to those in the stream, and this proved the salvation of the whole party.
The rain changed to snow, and ice formed upon the water in which the men waded to push the bateaux as * What the device on this flag, or what its color was, we have no means of ascertaining.
On the 5th of July they embarked on Lake George, on board nine hundred bateaux and one hundred and thirty- five whale-boats, and the next day landed at the foot of the lake and pushed on toward Ticonderoga.
Oxen dragged the bateaux part of the way on sleds, and the baggage and stores were carried on the shoulders of the men.
The negro boy who ran to the fort gave the alarm, and a small detachment was imme- * Bateaux were rudely constructed of logs and planks, broad and without a keel.
The provisions and other stores in his bateaux were captured or destroyed by the republicans, and from every direction he was galled by a desultory fire from cannon and small arms.
So rapid was the stream, that the men waded more than half way, pushing the bateaux against the current; yet they were in good spirits, and seemed to partake of the enthusiasm of their leader.
Besides these, there are the local bateaux mouches, which ply up and down to near-by suburbs, much as they do in Paris, as well as a more splendid craft which carries passengers on alternate days from Rouen to Havre.
The bateaux often needed to be beached and caulked, while both whites and Indians had to help carry the loads round the shoal places.
But Clark was no believer in omens, and he ordered the bateaux to proceed.
These goods, upon arrival at Mackinac, were sent out by canoes and bateaux to the different posts, where they were dealt out to the savages directly or were dispatched to the winter camps along the far-reaching waterways.
By good management, however, it was brought safely to the Maumee, up whose sluggish waters the bateaux were laboriously poled.
And it rolls and boils and tumbles on its way now as it did when the great bateaux swept down its flood, over a hundred miles a day, loaded with robes and furs.
On July 9th three bateauxgot in from Fort Union with a lot of robes.
On July 11th four bateaux left Fort Pierre for St. Louis, and they carried three hundred and fifty-five packs of robes and ten thousand two hundred and thirty pounds of beaver.
Bateaux from tide-water ascend to the junction, and thence high up the North fork, or Columbia.
He followed the road to Oregon made by emigrants, men, women and children to the Dalles, took bateaux to Fort Vancouver, got supplies, returned to The Dalles and struck out for California on the east side of the mountains.
The canoe and bateaux were their only means of transportation.
They are then taken to their place of destination, the bateaux returning to the Falls for successive loads, the whole transfer requiring considerable time.
These pineries can only be reached by stemming the currents of the minor streams inbateaux or birch bark canoes, or by traversing the country on foot or with teams.
Sometimes, if late in the season, part or whole of the fleet of bateaux may be caught in the ice, in which case a bushed road must be made, and the supplies transported by teams and men.
The French placed their cannon and stores on the frigates and smaller vessels which had escaped up the river in the autumn, and with their army in bateaux they started on the 21st April for the descent from Montreal.
It seemed to another council, on the 27th, that the attempt to trust their river bateaux on the lake was foolhardy, and so the purpose of the campaign was abandoned.
A council of war, on the 18th of September, determined him to take to the lake with his bateaux as soon as provisions arrived.
On again they swept in a fleet of bateaux and canoes to Ticonderoga.
They insisted on collecting tolls on fur trade bateaux which were being propelled up the Fox River, and even stopped traders entirely; several murders of Frenchmen were also charged to them.
For sailing on the Rhône the best steamers are the Bateaux Parisiens, starting from the quay in front of the Place Tholozan behind the Hôtel de Ville, and plying between Lyons and Avignon.
For short sails on the Saône the Bateaux Mouches are very convenient, page 31.
Grand and lonely, prematurely aged at fifty-one when he should have been in his prime, General Clark sat overlooking the Falls when Captain Lewis pulled his bateaux into the Bear Grass.
On the Rivanna Jefferson had a mill, where his wheat was manufactured into flour and sent down to Richmond on bateaux to be sold for a good price, and cotton brought home to be made into cloth on the plantation.
The Kentuckians could be recognised by their call as they helped the bateaux over the rapids and launched them below.
The bateaux should also be made of strong and light materials.
On navigable streams a part of the bridge resting on one or two bateaux should be so arranged that it can be shipped out of its place, forming a draw for the passage of river-craft.
There were many huge bateaux swung upon trucks that had hauled them around the white-water.
You've brought those bateaux over all your own sheer-booms below here--you've got your own booms above.
So Wade went to the front--to Castonia, sweeping down the swollen Umcolcus in one of Withee's bateaux with four men at the oars.
For sixteen days the boatmen poled their bateaux up the river.
Upon receiving this belligerent reply, the chief allowed the troops to pass; and finally on June 30th the bateaux were moored near Fort Crawford and Prairie du Chien.
Captain Whistler of the Third United States Infantry, then stationed at this post, had prepared bateaux for the use of the troops, and on June 7th the ascent of the Fox River was commenced.
Every pound of freight that went up the river above Fort Union in the company's keel-boats and bateaux was for the Indian trade, and there was no room for such luxuries as flour.
I liked best to go with him to the levee and see the trappers and traders coming in, their bateaux loaded down with beaver and other fur pelts.
Bradstreet, having finished his bridge, had started back for the landing-stage to haul a dozen of the lighter bateauxacross the portage and float them down to Lake Champlain filled with riflemen.
They were prisoners brought down from Oswego, twelve bateaux in all, and I took them through the falls.
Last, descending from the west by the gate of the Great Lakes, came the Commander in Chief, the cautious Amherst, with eighteen hundred soldiers and Indians and over eight hundred bateaux and whale-boats.
Their boats and bateaux pushed out into the Niagara, whose expanded waters reposed in a serenity soon to be exchanged for the wild roar and tumultuous struggle of the rapids and the cataract.
The rest followed, a small party remaining to hold the enemy in check while the dead and wounded were placed on board the two bateaux which had rowed up to the bridge during the action.
The two armed bateaux had gone down to the fort, laden with the dead and wounded.
At early dawn on the fifteenth of June, they were first discovered stealthily crossing the mouth of the little stream, where the bateaux were drawn up, and crawling under cover of the banks of the lake and of the adjacent saw-pits.
The twobateaux accompanied them closely, and, by a constant fire, restrained the Indians from making an attack.
This difficulty was overcome by building a dam at the outlet of Otsego Lake, raising its level to such a point that, when the water was released, the more than two hundred bateaux were readily guided down the swollen stream.
Here they launched their fleet of bateaux and floated down the lake to their landing at the present site of Cooperstown.
The time for the bateaux drew near, and I noticed that several of the men were hard at work packing the furs in bales, a job usually left to the voyageurs who came with the boats.
Ours was a voluntary camp, in a measure, but still we had formally agreed to get a certain amount of skins ready for the bateaux by early spring; this agreement was about the only real bond of union between us.
You don't suppose we're going to have those bateaux rascals camping on Little Fishing, do you?
Burgoyne took with him provisions for five weeks, which were loaded inbateaux and floated down the river as he advanced.
This section of the River was navigated by the bateaux of the trappers and the canoes of the Indians.
They proceeded now in bateaux down the Great River to Vancouver, the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's empire.
The bateaux were boats of peculiar shape, being built very high and broad so that in an unloaded condition they seemed to rest on the water almost like a paper shell.
In fact, pleasant as is our journey on the Rossland, we would rather reconstruct the bateaux of 1840 and in them make the whole long journey to the sea, a thousand miles away.
The old voyageurs had little difficulty in racing down, and they seem to have usually ascended by cordelling their bateaux beside the rocks, and at some especially difficult places by lightening the load and carrying around.
Again, the bateaux of the trappers were the chief craft to cut the blue lakes and the white rapids.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bateaux" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
