An American history . of a century later, was to become foreverglorious in our history. The war that opened with the skirmish at Great Meadows 120. Brad-in 1754 went badly for the English in the early years.^ The ,55 s e ea , 1 This war, called in Europe the Seven Years War, and in America the Frenchand Indian War, was the most tremendous conflict of the eighteenth century. InEurope it assumed the form of a huge coalition of France, Austria, Spain, Russia,and minor countries against Frederick the Great of Prussia. England wasFredericks ally, and the war brought her into conflict with France fa
An American history . of a century later, was to become foreverglorious in our history. The war that opened with the skirmish at Great Meadows 120. Brad-in 1754 went badly for the English in the early years.^ The ,55 s e ea , 1 This war, called in Europe the Seven Years War, and in America the Frenchand Indian War, was the most tremendous conflict of the eighteenth century. InEurope it assumed the form of a huge coalition of France, Austria, Spain, Russia,and minor countries against Frederick the Great of Prussia. England wasFredericks ally, and the war brought her into conflict with France far colonialsupremacy in India and America (see Robinson and Beard, Development ofModem Europe, Vol. I, pp. 68, 71). 2 An incident of these years, which the poet Longfellow in his Evangeline has invested with a pathos far beyond its real importance, was the forcible removalof seven thousand French inhabitants from Acadia. Ever since the Peace ofUtrecht, which transferred Acadia to the English, the French inhabitants had. The Struggle with France for North America 99 first regular British troops sent over, under the command ofthe brave but rash General Braddock, to take Fort Duquesne,were surprised and almost annihilated in the Pennsylvania for-ests (July, 1755)- Their French and Indian opponents foughtbehind rocks, trees, and bushes, in a kind of warfare utterlystrange to the European veterans, who were used to beatenroads and wide fields of battle. In the awful confusion Brad-dock fell with nearly a thousand of his soldiers. It was onlythe gallant conduct of the young Washington, whose horsewas shot under him twice and whose uniform was pierced withbullets, that saved the retreat from utter rout and panic. Braddocks defeat exposed the whole line of frontier settle- 121. wiiuamments from Pennsylvania to South Carolina to the savage raids turn of theof the Indians; while his papers, falling into the hands of the ^^^ 757-1759French, revealed and frustrated the whole plan of the Eng
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