William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . a on July 25th,though Prideaux himself had been killed. This suc-cess on Lake Ontario completed the severance ofCanada from the French forts in the west, and itseffect was so complete that Stanwix carried out hisexpedition from Pittsburg to Lake Erie without op-position. On the death of Prideaux, Amherst sentGage to take his place, with orders to descend theSt. Lawrence and attack the French posts on thatriver west of Montreal, but Gage found this to beimpossible. It was mid October before Amhersthim
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . a on July 25th,though Prideaux himself had been killed. This suc-cess on Lake Ontario completed the severance ofCanada from the French forts in the west, and itseffect was so complete that Stanwix carried out hisexpedition from Pittsburg to Lake Erie without op-position. On the death of Prideaux, Amherst sentGage to take his place, with orders to descend theSt. Lawrence and attack the French posts on thatriver west of Montreal, but Gage found this to beimpossible. It was mid October before Amhersthimself had finished his boats and forts, and wasready for an advance; his small navy consisted of abrig, a floating battery and a sloop, and against thisforce the four French ships on Lake Champlain madeno resistance. But the weather broke, heavy stormsmade advance impossible, so that Amherst made noattack on the Isle-aux-Noix, but retired instead toCrown Point in order to finish his fort there. Thus in his great enterprise against Quebec,Wolfewas left without the assistance he expected. His. 1761] Pitfs War Ministry. 143 army consisted of eight thousand six hundred effect-ives, while Montcalm commanded more than fifteenthousand. The fleet was under Admiral Saunders,and numbered twenty-two ships of the line. ByJune 26th the main British fleet reached the Isle ofOrleans, three or four miles from Quebec, where thearmy was landed. Montcalm had carefully guardedevery point which was open to attack, he had de-clared that he would play Fabius and not Hannibal,and with a position so strong, and an army so supe-rior in numbers, it was clear that Quebec would noteasily fall. The chief incidents of the siege, whichlasted eleven weeks, are well known. Wolfe securedPoint Levi, without great difficulty and from thencebombarded the town ; the* French failed in an at-tempt to burn the English fleet by fire-boats whichwere sent down the river by night: the Englishfailed in an attack on the Frenc
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