History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . had set his mind on the conquestof Canada. He superseded Loudon earlyin 1758 by General Amherst, who wasseconded by Wolfe and by Admiral Bos-cawen, both with large were to reduce Louisburg. It wasan innovation to assign important com-mands like these to men with so littlefame and influence, but Pitt did not believed his appointees to be brave,energetic, skilful, and the event provedhis wisdom. Louisburg fell, and with itthe whole of Cape Breton Island and alsoPrince Edward. Un
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . had set his mind on the conquestof Canada. He superseded Loudon earlyin 1758 by General Amherst, who wasseconded by Wolfe and by Admiral Bos-cawen, both with large were to reduce Louisburg. It wasan innovation to assign important com-mands like these to men with so littlefame and influence, but Pitt did not believed his appointees to be brave,energetic, skilful, and the event provedhis wisdom. Louisburg fell, and with itthe whole of Cape Breton Island and alsoPrince Edward. Unfortunately General Abercrombie hadnot been recalled with Loudon. Thesame year, 1758, he signally failed tocapture Ticonderoga, leaving the wayto Montreal worse blocked than Du Ouesne, however, General Forbestook this year at little cost, rechris-tenine it Pittsburgh in honor of theheroic minister who had ordered the enter-prise. In the year 1759 occurred a grand triple 364 ENGLISH AMERICA [1759 movement upon Canada. Amherst, nowgeneral-in-chief, was to clear the Champlain. General Wolfe. Valley, and Prideaux with large colonialforces to reduce Fort Niagara. Both had 1759] THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 365 orders, being successful in these initialattacks, to move down the St. Lawrenceand unite with Wolfe, who was to sail upthat river and beset Quebec. Prideauxwas splendidly successful, as indeed wasAmherst in time, though longer than heanticipated in securing Ticonderoga andCrown Point. Meantime Wolfe at Quebec was trying inall ways to manoeuvre the crafty Montcalmout of his impregnable works. Failing, hein his eagerness suffered himself to attemptan assault upon the city, which proved notonly vain but terribly costly. A weakercommander would now have given up, butWolfe had red hair, and the grit usuallyaccompanying. Undaunted, he planned thehazardous enterprise of rowing up the by night, landing with five thou-sand picked men at the foot of the precipi-tous
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