Martin then sent messengers to other English-speaking settlements, asking for reinforcements to help protect the cannon.
A political union would, he hoped, cause the French-speakers to be assimilated by English-speaking settlements, solving the problem of French Canadian nationalism once and for all.
In 1779 he was a resident of Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains, and lived there until 1780.
The area which is now Laurel Hill was one of the first post American annexation English-speaking settlements in Florida.
There has been English-speaking settlement or immigration to some degree in almost all areas of Quebec at one time or another.
All with rich English-speaking settlements.
They followed a route through the country from near the first English-speaking settlements, taking in historic sites.
Woodside is said to be the oldest English-speaking settlement in the southern part of the San Francisco Peninsula.
As well as the English-speaking settlements, the islands are known for their world famous children's French camp.
Among the affected villages was Fort Yukon, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in Alaska.
