Ghost of the glacier and other tales . North America. Such a succession of victories might well have inspired aless arrogant king to boastfulness. Louis XV. saw hisstandards floating at the four corners of the earth and struckthis medal, which is now treasured as a curio ; a souvenir ofdeparted greatness. ONCE A PILLAR OF THE WORLD. TYPICAL NORTHERNNEW YORK RIVER. But Louis did not overvalue the importance of his vic-tory at Oswego. It was an event which, properly followedup, might have changed the history of America. Fifteenhundred English were captured by the victorious Montcalm,besides seve
Ghost of the glacier and other tales . North America. Such a succession of victories might well have inspired aless arrogant king to boastfulness. Louis XV. saw hisstandards floating at the four corners of the earth and struckthis medal, which is now treasured as a curio ; a souvenir ofdeparted greatness. ONCE A PILLAR OF THE WORLD. TYPICAL NORTHERNNEW YORK RIVER. But Louis did not overvalue the importance of his vic-tory at Oswego. It was an event which, properly followedup, might have changed the history of America. Fifteenhundred English were captured by the victorious Montcalm,besides seven vessels of war and one hundred and thirty-nine guns. The British flags, having been carried intriumph through the streets of Montreal and Quebec, werehung in the cathedrals as thankful offerings. The AbbePiquet, a zealous priest accompanying the French army, withhis own hands planted on the smoking ruins of the forts across, bearing the words, In hoc signo vinces. The key tothe St. Lawrence, to the Great Lakes, to the Western world. was in French hands. Minorca is gone, wrote Horry Walpole to his friend Horace Mann— Minorca is gone;Oswego, ten times more important than Minorca, is nation is in a ferment. But the French triumph was short-lived. Having de-molished the forts at Oswego, Fort Ontario, Oswego OldFort and Fort George, the victors moved away and sufferedthe place to relapse into English control. The stirringevents of the next three years are written large on the pagesof American history. They culminated on September i8,1759, ii^ the fall of Quebec, the solstice in the ecliptic ofmodern institutions, since it secured America for Englishinstitutions and American civilization, to dominate theworld. It supplied to the United States, says the ONCE A PILLAR OF THE WORLD, historian Parkman, the indispensable condition of theirgreatness, if not of their national existence. Oswego was the base of the British operations againstMontreal and Quebec and also the scene
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