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Yesterday, Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette put a financial price tag on Roethlisberger's suspension:
Anne Mai Bertelsen: What Kind of Girl Effect are Nike and Roethlisberger Promoting? Anne Mai Bertelsen 2010
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According to Bouchette, the attendant didn't know he was kicking out the owner of the Steelers.
Dan Rooney, Pittsburgh Steelers Chairman, Kicked Out Of Giants' Press Box 2010
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Yet more, while I was patiently and quietly pursuing these investigations, Colonel Bouchette handed me a copy of the Bath (Me.)
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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They were both (Bouchette and Bratish) living in Portland at the time, and occupied chambers in the same building; and I inferred from what passed in this or in a subsequent interview that the Colonel had known the General in Quebec or Montreal, about the time of the outbreak there in which they were implicated.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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Bouchette, of the Royal Navy, and was now safely lodged in the chief fortress of America.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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Mrs. Simcoe has left us a drawing of Toronto Harbour in that year, which bears out the description by Bouchette when he surveyed the harbour for the Governor, - "I distinctly remember the untamed aspect which the country exhibited when first I entered the beautiful basin-dense and trackless forests lines the margin of the lake."
Old Toronto 1925
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Governor Guy Carleton, returned and rejoined his dauntless little army at Quebec, having succeeded, thanks to Captain Bouchette and other brave men, in eluding the vigilance of the enemy in possession of
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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Château St. Louis; described by Kalm; by Kirby; meeting place of Superior Council; described in Hawkins '"Picture of Quebec"; by Bouchette; by Parkman; burnt; too small; foundation of Quebec Agricultural Society in; described by Weld; repaired and enlarged; first meeting of Literary and Historical Society held in; proposed reconstruction.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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"The fortress, says Bouchette, (Fort) of St. Louis covered about four acres of ground, and formed nearly a parallelogram; on the western side two strong bastions on each angle were connected by a curtain, in the centre of which was a sallyport: the other faces presented works of nearly a similar description, but of less dimensions."
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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[34] Bouchette -- _Topography of Lower Canada_, 1815.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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