History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . predecessor to carry out the policy ofthe Crown, he found himself at the same time pledged, as theleader of the popular party, to a policy diametrically , therefore, he fulfilled the letter of his instructions by lay-ing them before the Assembly, he at the same time urged uponthe home government the propriety and necessity of concessionsto the popular will. 14. In September, 1755, Sir Charles Hardy arrived at \ i MM New York as Governor, and w
History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . predecessor to carry out the policy ofthe Crown, he found himself at the same time pledged, as theleader of the popular party, to a policy diametrically , therefore, he fulfilled the letter of his instructions by lay-ing them before the Assembly, he at the same time urged uponthe home government the propriety and necessity of concessionsto the popular will. 14. In September, 1755, Sir Charles Hardy arrived at \ i MM New York as Governor, and was received with the usualhonors. De Lancey resumed his seat as Chief-Justice; butHardy, fully conscious of his own deficiencies in the new and un-accustomed field of action which had been assigned him, aban-doned all but its nominal duties to his predecessor, and byhis return to England and resumption of his post in the navy,left the government again in his charge. Suicide.—Accession of Lieutenant-Governor De Lancey. — His policy andits results. — Sir Charles Hardy. — His abandonment of the government andreturn to Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga. FOURTH PERIOD, FROM TEE FREXCH AND INDIAN WAR TO THE REVOLUTION. CHAPTER I Admixistration of Lieutenant-Governor De Lancet. — Campaigns OF 1754, 1755, AND 1756. 1753. \. After the capture of the Fortress of Louisburg, on CapeBreton Island, then (1745) in possession of the French,by the English fleet under Commodore AVarren, and thecombined colonial forces under William Pepperell, — a blowrendered the more severe by the vast expense and great strengthof the works, — the French entered upon a course of vigorousoperations to concentrate and extend their power in America, inopposition to the efforts of their hereditary enemies, the English, Preparations of the French for opposing the extension of the British powerin America. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. 65 who had ah-eady obtained so firm a footing. Having estab-lished a n
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