The Savage YearsHarper, 1959 - 288 sider Story of the last French and Indian war in North America climaxed by the fall of New France. |
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Side 91
... sent to challenge him with an outgunned fleet of leaky , barnacled ships , was beaten off . The incompetent British government which had sent him there allowed him to take the blame , court martialled him for cowardice and shot him on ...
... sent to challenge him with an outgunned fleet of leaky , barnacled ships , was beaten off . The incompetent British government which had sent him there allowed him to take the blame , court martialled him for cowardice and shot him on ...
Side 106
... sent out two more regular battalions as reinforcement , in all barely nine hundred men . But they were lavish with incompetent generals , of whom they sent not one , but three . The first , Major - General Daniel Webb , displaced ...
... sent out two more regular battalions as reinforcement , in all barely nine hundred men . But they were lavish with incompetent generals , of whom they sent not one , but three . The first , Major - General Daniel Webb , displaced ...
Side 201
... sent over to make a night attack . His force was insufficient , became divided and the attempt failed ignominiously when each of the sundered parts mistook the other for the enemy . A number were killed in the brisk fusillade and the ...
... sent over to make a night attack . His force was insufficient , became divided and the attempt failed ignominiously when each of the sundered parts mistook the other for the enemy . A number were killed in the brisk fusillade and the ...
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GEORGE WASHINGTON COMES OF | 13 |
Across the Alleghenies Page | 26 |
BAITING THE GOVERNORS | 31 |
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Amherst arrived artillery assembly attack battalions battle Beauport Bigot boats Bougainville Braddock brigadier British colonies brought camp campaign Canada Canadians and Indians Cape Breton Island Captain captured carried Colonel colonists colony marines command Cumberland defence Dinwiddie Duquesne duty enemy England expedition fight fire fleet force Fort Cumberland Fort Duquesne Fort Edward Fort Frontenac Fort William Henry France French frontier garrison Governor Governor-General Grenadiers guns Highlanders honour hundred Ile aux Noix James Wolfe killed King King's Lake Ontario land Lawrence Lévis light infantry Loudoun Louisbourg Marquis de Montcalm miles military militia Minister Monckton Montcalm Montmorency Montreal North America officers Ohio Oswego Paris Pennsylvania Pitt Point Levis position provincials Quebec regiments regulars reinforcements river sent settlements ships Shirley shore soldiers supplies Ticonderoga town Townshend trade troops Vaudreuil victory Virginia Washington William Henry Wolfe Wolfe's wounded wrote