. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. IX-II). IX-IU The United States—Capture of Louisburg ^555 The colonies lost heavily in men and money. Their frontiers from Maine toVirginia were
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. IX-II). IX-IU The United States—Capture of Louisburg ^555 The colonies lost heavily in men and money. Their frontiers from Maine toVirginia were cruelly ravaged. In 1758 the tide turned. The British colonists were at last fully outnumbered the Canadians more than a dozen to one, and had at firstexpected an easy victory. The contest had proved, however, more even thanit promised. All the northern Indians except the Iroquois had made an alli-ance with the enemy; and even the Iroquois began to waver in their ancientallegiance, tempted to admiration by French daring and success. Moreover,the Frenchmen were all woodsmen, all fighters, while the Americans, exceptupon the extreme frontiers, had become a race of peaceful traders. They wereunaccustomed to war, and most of them took little interest in it. Now, however, they began to wake to its seriousness; and at the sametime apolitical change of ministry placed William Pitt, one of Englands ablestand most celebrated statesmen, in contro
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