That village lies midway between Presque Isle and Malden, the distance to each being eighteen miles.
The Americans possessed at the same period a brig, the Detroit, and a sloop, the former a very fine vessel, and in readiness for any service, although then laid up at Presque Isle.
The French were the early settlers, building their "Fort de la Presque Isle" in 1749, which was one of the chain of outposts they projected between the St. Lawrence and the Ohio.
Without any molestation whatever the Americans were enabled to forward their naval stores from Black Rock to Presque Isle, by water, which, had hostilities been active, would have been impossible.
Captain Barclay sailed from Amherstburgh and stretched his little squadron across the entrance to Presque Isle.
Formal possession having been taken, the next step of the French was to build a log fort at Presque Isle (on Lake Erie where the city of Erie now is), and also Forts Le Boeuf and Venango, on a branch of the Allegheny.
Meantime a young naval officer, Oliver Hazard Perry, was hastily building at Erie (Presque Isle) a little fleet to attack the British, whose fleet on Lake Erie had been built just as hurriedly.
Detroit was attacked, Presque Isle was captured, Le Boeuf and Venango were burned to the ground, Fort Pitt was besieged, and the frontier of Pennsylvania laid waste.
From Fort Oswego the route continued by water to Fort Niagara at the mouth of the river of that name, then along the Niagara River and by Lake Erie to Presque Isle, then by land to Fort Le Boeuf, then by river to Fort Pitt.
Then they made Presque Isle, where there was much unloading, and some stores to be taken on board.
In November he started for the East, but at Presque Isle was seized with a fatal malady which ended his useful and energetic career, and proved a great loss to the country.
For she goes first over to Barre, and then crosses the lake again and stops at Presque Isle.
In July 1813 he concentrated the Lake Erie fleet at Presque Isle (now Erie).
Erie stands on the site of the old French fort Presque Isle, built in 1753 and surrounded by a village of a few hundred inhabitants.
The schooner White Fish arrived at Philadelphia, from Presque isle, on lake Erie.
Action off Presque isle, between the United States schooner, Lady of the Lake, lieut.
Here he adds a note which is hardly correct: "Aujourdhui il ne se trouvent presque pas des Juifs au Bresil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
