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The Battle of Trois-Rivières was fought on June 8, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.A British army under Quebec Governor Guy Carleton defeated an attempt by units from the Continental Army under the command of Brigadier General William Thompson to stop a British advance up the Saint Lawrence River valley.
It then became necessary to create three governments. In Trois-Rivières, the first captain to hold the title of governor Francis Champflour in 1643. Thus appeared the three governments of New France. [3] At its inception in 1643, the Government of Trois-Rivières had only one permanent establishment, the position of Trois-Rivières.
John Dory, St Pierre, or Peter's fish, refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, of widespread distribution. It is an edible demersal coastal marine fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large dark spot, and long spines on the dorsal fin .
Trois-Rivières aerial view. Trois-Rivières (French: [tʁwɑ ʁivjɛʁ], Canadian French: [tʁwɔ ʁivjaɛ̯ʁ] ⓘ; lit. ' Three Rivers ') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour.
Three Rivers Rambler, a tourist train in Knoxville, Tennessee; Three Rivers, a discontinued Amtrak train; Three Rivers, an American medical drama, debuted and cancelled in 2009; Three Rivers, the working title for the 1993 film Striking Distance; Three Rivers, a fictional suburb in the 1994 show My So-Called Life
John Dory (Roud 249, Child 284) is an English-language folk song. The fish John Dory may be named for the titular character. [1] The song is sometimes sung as a three-part round. The first printing of the tune and text is 1609 in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia songbook but there are earlier mentions of the song in books. [2]
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They moved to a farm near Three Rivers, Michigan; and the community grew considerably under the leadership of Dom Paul Severance. the cornerstone of the first priory building, the chapel, was laid on 20 October 1950. [1] For 30 years, the monastery was a dependency of Nashdom Abbey and relied on the careful shepherding of its abbots.