The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . bouquets redoubt, PITTSBURG. charge of powder. And thus it was that the originalcause of the war had fallen without firing a shot. With the raising of the English fiag the place wasrechristened Fort Pitt, by Forbes, in honor of the GreatCommoner who had planned its downfall. The next year (1759) saw the last of French power inCanada. One crushing blow followed another. FirstNiagara was taken, then Ticonderoga and CroAvn Point, 78 THE END OF FRENCH DOMINION, 1759 and lastly Quebec, that greatest stronghold of all, whichthe French were so confide
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . bouquets redoubt, PITTSBURG. charge of powder. And thus it was that the originalcause of the war had fallen without firing a shot. With the raising of the English fiag the place wasrechristened Fort Pitt, by Forbes, in honor of the GreatCommoner who had planned its downfall. The next year (1759) saw the last of French power inCanada. One crushing blow followed another. FirstNiagara was taken, then Ticonderoga and CroAvn Point, 78 THE END OF FRENCH DOMINION, 1759 and lastly Quebec, that greatest stronghold of all, whichthe French were so confident could not be taken, fell be-fore the victorious Wolfe. The western posts shared the. GENERAL JAMES WOLFE. fate of the rest, a little later. From Fort Pitt, Bouquetwent up the Alleghany to take possession of Presquisle,which the French had set on fire and abandoned.^From Presquisle Major Rogers crossed the lake to oc- THE END OF FRENCH DOMINION. 1759 79 cupy Detroit. And so the French flag came clown, andthe English went up over all the great Northwest. Mill-ions had been spent, blood poured out like water, andall in vain. What it had taken so many years to rearsince La Salle first threaded these unheeded solitudeswas become the prize of Frances greatest rival at last. General Forbes was obliged to turn over the command^to General Stanwix, who continued the work of fortifyingPittsburg, and of pacifying the hostile tribes. The in-trenchments were carried across from the Alleghany tothe Monongahela. Eighteen pieces of artillery coveredthis approach; barracks were built to lodge a thousandsoldiers. British dominion was at last firmly seated onthe Ohio. Better still, no le
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