. Bill Nye's history of the United States. or this Johnson, theEnglish general, received twenty-five thousanddollars and a baronetcy, while Lyman received aplated butter-dish and a bass-wood what-not. ButLyman was a married man, and had learned totake things as they came. Four months prior to the capture of Duquesne,one thousand boats loaded with soldiers, each witha neat little lunch-basket and a little flag to wavewhen they hurrahed for the good kind man at thehead of the picnic,—viz., General Abercrombie,—sailed down Lake George to get a whiff of freshair and take Ticonderoga. When they arr
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. or this Johnson, theEnglish general, received twenty-five thousanddollars and a baronetcy, while Lyman received aplated butter-dish and a bass-wood what-not. ButLyman was a married man, and had learned totake things as they came. Four months prior to the capture of Duquesne,one thousand boats loaded with soldiers, each witha neat little lunch-basket and a little flag to wavewhen they hurrahed for the good kind man at thehead of the picnic,—viz., General Abercrombie,—sailed down Lake George to get a whiff of freshair and take Ticonderoga. When they arrived. General Abercrombie tookout a small book regarding tactics which he hadbought on the boat, and, after refreshing- his mem-ory, ordered an assault. He then went back tosee how his rearwas, and, findingit all right, hewent back stillfarther, to seeif no one hadbeen left behind. Abercrombie never for-got or overlooked any wanted all of his pleas-ure-party to be where theycouiQ see tne ngnt. abercrombie went back to the S^^ I20 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. In that way he missed it himself. I would hateto miss a fight that way. The Abercrombies of America mostly tracetheir ancestry back by a cut-off avoiding the gen-erals line. Niagara had an expedition sent against it at thetime of Braddocks trip. The commander wasGeneral Shirley, but he ran out of money while atthe Falls and decided to return. This post didnot finally surrender till 1759. This gave the then West to the English. Theyhad tried for one hundred and forty years tocivilize it, but, alas, with only moderate and happy even while sniping in theirfox-hunting or canvas-back-duck clothes, thesepeople feel somewhat soothed for their lack ofculture because they are well-to-do. In 1759 General Wolfe anchored off Quebecwith his fleet and sent a boy up town to ask ifthere were any letters for him at the post-office,also asking at what time it would be convenientto evacuate the place. The
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