Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . The probability is, therefore, that Frank-lins plan was nearly correct. The plan of union not having been adopted, the Eng-lish governmentdetermined to carry on the war with such help as the colonies might feel in-clined to furnish. In Feb-ru-a-ry, 1755, Gen-er-al Brad-dock was sent outfrom England to the Ches-a-peake, as commander-in-chief, with two regimentsof Brit-ish troops. At Al-ex-an-dra, Brad-dock met a convention of Colonialgovernors, and, with their advice, de
Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . The probability is, therefore, that Frank-lins plan was nearly correct. The plan of union not having been adopted, the Eng-lish governmentdetermined to carry on the war with such help as the colonies might feel in-clined to furnish. In Feb-ru-a-ry, 1755, Gen-er-al Brad-dock was sent outfrom England to the Ches-a-peake, as commander-in-chief, with two regimentsof Brit-ish troops. At Al-ex-an-dra, Brad-dock met a convention of Colonialgovernors, and, with their advice, decided on the campaign for the , in person, was to march against Fort du Quesne; Gov-ern-or Shir-ley, of Mas-sa-chu-setts, to lead an expedition against Fort Ni-ag-a-ra; andWil-liam Johnson, an influential man with the Ir-o-quois, was to attempt, withtheir assistance, the capture of Crown Point. Besides these three expeditions planned by Brad-dock, still another,against the French settlements at the head of the Bay of Fun-dy, had beenpreviously arranged in Mas-sa-chu-setts. They were defended by two French. INDIAN TROOPS. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. 99 forts, and were considered by the Eng-lish to be within the limits of No-vaSco-tia. In tlic month of May, Colonel John Wins-low, at tlie head of threethousand New Eng-Iand men, left Bos-ton to attack these posts. On hisarrival at the Bay of Fun-dy, Colonel Monck-ton, with three hundred Brit-ishregulars, joined him, and assumed the command. The forts were soon takenwith little bloodshed, and the whole territory was now completely in the handsof the Eng-lish. The French settlers or A-ca-di-ans, twelve thousand or more in number,were simple-hearted people, devoted to their farms and their country pleasures.
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