The Pine-tree coast . loriously termi-nated in the trenchesof Corunna in 1809,and is ccmmemoratedtlirough all fcir-se inWolfes fine ode, — Not a (Iruiu was heard, nota funeral note. The invaders ke])tundisputed possessionuntil after the conclu-sion of peace, though thememory of the defeatthey had inflicted on ouruntrained soldiers gaverise to occasional pro-jects for dislodging them. But the first effort had quite robbed the enterprise of its and La Peyrouse offered to undertake it, and would have done soif more important services had not called them to another field. That wo
The Pine-tree coast . loriously termi-nated in the trenchesof Corunna in 1809,and is ccmmemoratedtlirough all fcir-se inWolfes fine ode, — Not a (Iruiu was heard, nota funeral note. The invaders ke])tundisputed possessionuntil after the conclu-sion of peace, though thememory of the defeatthey had inflicted on ouruntrained soldiers gaverise to occasional pro-jects for dislodging them. But the first effort had quite robbed the enterprise of its and La Peyrouse offered to undertake it, and would have done soif more important services had not called them to another field. That wouldhave been a curious instance of history repeating itself, if the French flaghad been again planted on the heights of Pentagoet, through the interven-tion of those very colonists who had been the most inveterate in their efforts topull it down. Froni this vantage-giound the British began their wanton depredations onthe neighboring coasts and harbors, — a warfare exclusively aimed at the destruc-tion of 284 THE PINE-TREE COAST.
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