Young folks' history of the United States . n be-ing from Massachusetts,New Hampshire, and Con-necticut. Four thousandmen took part, leaving theirwives and children to planttheir fields while they weregone. Louisburg was thestrongest fortress on theAmerican continent, — sostrong, that it was calledThe Gibraltar of North America. The attackingparty had but twenty-one field-pieces, and there were ahundred and seven cannon inside the fort; but, aftera siege of fifty-days, Louisburg was taken from theFrench. This was in and Wc must rcmembcr that at this time the Englishclaims. colonies
Young folks' history of the United States . n be-ing from Massachusetts,New Hampshire, and Con-necticut. Four thousandmen took part, leaving theirwives and children to planttheir fields while they weregone. Louisburg was thestrongest fortress on theAmerican continent, — sostrong, that it was calledThe Gibraltar of North America. The attackingparty had but twenty-one field-pieces, and there were ahundred and seven cannon inside the fort; but, aftera siege of fifty-days, Louisburg was taken from theFrench. This was in and Wc must rcmembcr that at this time the Englishclaims. colonies occupied only a strip of land along theAtlantic coast, though this strip extended for a thou-sand miles; while the French held Canada and NovaScotia, and claimed all the vast interior region, fromthe St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Governor of New York wrote home to England,that, if the French were allowed to hold all that theyhad discovered, the kings of England would not have a hundred miles from the sea anywhere. Not. THE FRENCH AND INDAN WARS. [49 only did the French claim all this; but they kept busily at work in the interior of the country, establishing trading-posts, building forts, making boats on the lakes, and collecting the materials of war. They would* not let the English make so much as a survey of land in the valley of the Ohio. So it was resolved to send a washing- messenger to remonstrate with the French officers and t^r,^^ ^^^
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