. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. French forces in thetown, to the number of six hundred, became prisoners of war. Commun-ication between Canada and Louisiana was for ever broken. At the same time Amherst was conquering on Lake an army of more than eleven thousand men he proceeded againstTiconderoga. On the 22d of July the English forces were disembarkednear the landing-place of Abercrombie. The French did not dare tostand against them. There was a slight skirmish, and then the trencheswere deserted. Fort Carillon
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. French forces in thetown, to the number of six hundred, became prisoners of war. Commun-ication between Canada and Louisiana was for ever broken. At the same time Amherst was conquering on Lake an army of more than eleven thousand men he proceeded againstTiconderoga. On the 22d of July the English forces were disembarkednear the landing-place of Abercrombie. The French did not dare tostand against them. There was a slight skirmish, and then the trencheswere deserted. Fort Carillon was given up. On the 26th the Frenchgarrison, having partly destroyed the fortifications, abandoned Ticon-deroga and retreated to Crown Point. Five days afterward they de-serted this place also, and entrenched themselves on Isle-aux-Noix, in theriver Sorel. The whole country of Lake Champlain had been recoveredwithout a battle. It remained for General Wolfe to achieve the final victory. Assoon as a tardy spring had cleared the St. Lawrence of ice, he began the 274 HISTORY OF THE UNITED VICINITY OF QUEBEC, 1759. ascent of the river. His force consisted of nearly eight thousand men,assisted by a fleet of forty-four vessels under command of Admiral Saun-ders. On the 27th of June the armament arrived without accident atthe Isle of Orleans, four miles below Quebec. The English camp was pitched at the upper end of theisland. Wolfes vessels gave himimmediate command of the river,and the southern bank was unde-fended. On the night of the 29th,General Monckton was sent with fourbattalions to seize Point Levi. Themovement was successful, and anEnglish battery was planted oppositethe city. From this position theLower Town was soon reduced toruins, and the Upper Town muchinjured; but the fortress seemed im-pregnable. The French, knowingthat it would be impossible to stormthe city from the river side, had drawn their line of entrenchment from thenorthern bank of the St. Lawrence, r
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