. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ere unsucessfulmen who expected to repair their broken fortunes inthe colonies. Naturally, they thought less of thewelfare of the people than of their own affairs. One,Cornbury, indulged in the silly habit of wearingwomens clothes; while another, Osborne, having losthis wife, imagined that a change of scene wouldbenefit him. This sort of treatment on the part ofEngland, of course, was felt by the colonists, but, fora time, matters of greater importance absorbed theirattention. The French, having established
. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ere unsucessfulmen who expected to repair their broken fortunes inthe colonies. Naturally, they thought less of thewelfare of the people than of their own affairs. One,Cornbury, indulged in the silly habit of wearingwomens clothes; while another, Osborne, having losthis wife, imagined that a change of scene wouldbenefit him. This sort of treatment on the part ofEngland, of course, was felt by the colonists, but, fora time, matters of greater importance absorbed theirattention. The French, having established flourishing set-tlements in Canada, and having made friends withthe Indians, were pushing westward and southward,and were actually planning to take l^ew , the French goneial, was quick, shrewd,and successful; the English generals were slow, con- ro A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK ceited, and imsuccessful. At Ticonderoga, in 1758,not heeding tlie advice of American soldiers, whomhe looked upon with contempt, Abercrombie sac-rificed two thousand brave men. At length a new. View of the fort about the year 1750. From an old print inValentines Manual for 1862. commander, ^Volfe, was sent over, and he turnedthe tide of affairs. Under his able leadership, Que-bec, situated on its high rock and considered im-pregnable, was captured in 1759. Both command-ers fell in this attack, and both were deeply mourned,for they were gallant and able generals. Thus Can- A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK 71 ada came into the hands of the English, the Indiansfor the time being were cowed, and ]S[ew York wassafe. In its small way, ISTew York was now quite a finetown. True, its entire population was less than theattendance at any popular football match of to-day,and one did not need to walk very far along Broad-way, north of Trinity, to reach the country; butthere was plenty of spirit and enterprise, and thepeople felt that they ought to have the best in theway of education. Accordingly, a coll
Size: 1892px × 1321px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjecthistori, bookyear1901
