History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . an settling onOswego River, and they finished a fortthere by 1726. Closer alliance was formedwith the Five Nations. The French gov-ernor of Quebec in 1725 pleaded that Niag-ara must be fortified, and on his successorwas urged the necessity of reducing theOswego garrison. It was partly to flankOswego that the French pushed up LakeChamplain to Crown Point and built FortSt. Frederick. The Treaty of Utrecht had left CapeBreton Island to France. The French atonce strongly fortified Louisburg andinvited thither
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . an settling onOswego River, and they finished a fortthere by 1726. Closer alliance was formedwith the Five Nations. The French gov-ernor of Quebec in 1725 pleaded that Niag-ara must be fortified, and on his successorwas urged the necessity of reducing theOswego garrison. It was partly to flankOswego that the French pushed up LakeChamplain to Crown Point and built FortSt. Frederick. The Treaty of Utrecht had left CapeBreton Island to France. The French atonce strongly fortified Louisburg andinvited thither the French inhabitants ofAcadia and Newfoundland, which had alsobeen ceded to Great Britain. Many went,though the British governors did much tohinder removal. This irritated the Frenchauthorities, and the Indian atrocities of1723-24 at Dover and in Maine are knownto have been stimulated from Montreal 1745] ENGLAND AND FRANCE 345 Father Rasle, an astute and benevolentFrench Jesuit who had settled among theIndians at Norridgewock, became an agentof this hostile influence. In an English. Governor Shirley attack, August 12, 1724, Rasles settlementwas broken up and himself killed. TheIndians next year made a treaty, and peaceprevailed till King Georges War. This opened in 1744, England againstFrance once more, and in 1745 came the 346 ENGLISH AMERICA [i745 capture of Louisburg, then the Gibraltar ofAmerica. This was brought about throughthe energy of Governor Shirley, of Massa-chusetts, the most efficient English com-
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