. A brief history of the United States . g on higherground, was far out of their reach. The bank of the river, * While the main army was delaying after this failure, Colonel Bradstreet obtainedpermission to go against Fort Frontenac, on the present site of Kingston. Crossingthe lake, he captured the fort and a large quantity of stores intended for Fort DuQuesne. The loss disheartened the garrison of the latter place, frightened oflf theirIndian aides, and did much to cause its evacuation on the approach of theEnglish. •t The next year that indefatigable general, Montcalm, crossed the lake from
. A brief history of the United States . g on higherground, was far out of their reach. The bank of the river, * While the main army was delaying after this failure, Colonel Bradstreet obtainedpermission to go against Fort Frontenac, on the present site of Kingston. Crossingthe lake, he captured the fort and a large quantity of stores intended for Fort DuQuesne. The loss disheartened the garrison of the latter place, frightened oflf theirIndian aides, and did much to cause its evacuation on the approach of theEnglish. •t The next year that indefatigable general, Montcalm, crossed the lake fromCanada and captured this fort with its garrison and a large amount of public stores. X Prideaux was accidentally kUled during the siege, but his successor, Johnson,satisfactorily carried out his plans. § It was expected that the two armies engaged in the capture of these forts wouldjoin Wolfe in the attack on Quebec; but for various reasons they made no attemptto do so, and Wolfe was left to perform his task alone. 88 EPOCH II. [1759. QUEBEC IN EARLY TIMES. for miles a higli craggy wall, bristled with cannon at everylanding-place. For months Wolfe lingered before the city,yainly seeking some feasible point of attack. Carefully re-connoitering the precipitous bluff above the city, his sharp eyesat length discovered a narrow path winding among the rocksto the top, and he determined to lead his army up thisascent. * To distract the enemys attention, he took his menseveral miles up the river. Thence dropping down silentlyby night with the ebb-tide, they landed, clambered up * General Wolfe was a great admirer of the poet Gray. As he went the rounds forfinal inspection on the beautiful starlight evening before the attack, he remarked tothose in the boat with him, I would rather be the author of The Elegy in a CountryChurchyard, than to have the glory of beating the French to-morrow ; and amidthe rippling of the water and the dashing of the oars he repeated : The boast of heraldry
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