Essentials of United States history . e Indians flocked to the support of thevictors. Once more the frontiers were drenched in blood. 103. William Pitt. — In June 1757, William Pitt, the famous English statesman, be-came secretary of state forforeign affairs. With him im-mediately a new order camein. He raised a larger army,selected new commanders, andso aroused the zeal of the colo-nists that they responded withmoney and with men. (icn-eral Abercronibie was ])Uic((lin connnand of an army whichnumbered fifty thousand rcgu- WiLLiAM Pitt, Earl of Chatham, j^^. ^^^ colonial troops. Again three ex
Essentials of United States history . e Indians flocked to the support of thevictors. Once more the frontiers were drenched in blood. 103. William Pitt. — In June 1757, William Pitt, the famous English statesman, be-came secretary of state forforeign affairs. With him im-mediately a new order camein. He raised a larger army,selected new commanders, andso aroused the zeal of the colo-nists that they responded withmoney and with men. (icn-eral Abercronibie was ])Uic((lin connnand of an army whichnumbered fifty thousand rcgu- WiLLiAM Pitt, Earl of Chatham, j^^. ^^^ colonial troops. Again three expeditions were arranged: one against FortTiconderoga on Lake Cham plain, another against Cape BretonCampaigns Inland, and the third against Fort Duquesne. Atof 1757 and Ticonderoga no decisive victory was won by either1758. gjdg The English captured Cape Breton. The French abandoned and burned Fort Duquesne. On its sitethe British erected a new fortification and named it FortPitt. Moreover, three campaigns were planned for the year. THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA 95 Montcalm. 1758. General Amherst was to make another attempt tocapture Ticonderoga; General Prideaux (Pre-do) was to leadan expedition against Fort Niagara, and General JamesWolfe was to attack Quebec itself. Montcalm realized that the results at Quebec would decidethe outcome of the was Canada in a stateso critical and full of peril, wrote the bishop of Quebec to the peopleof his parishes. Every Cana-dian who could carry a gun,the boy of fifteen and the oldman of eighty, was pressedinto service. The French com-mander withdrew so manytroops from the forts in theinterior that when Amherstarrived at Ticonderoga andPrideaux at Niagara, both})laces fell into their hands, but not in time for them to giveaid to Wolfe at Quebec. 104. The Battle of Quebec. — Meanwhile General Wolfehad been making thorough preparations for the siege ofQuebec. He had been given the power to appoint his ownofficers, and had made his sel
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