Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . ego, the most import-ant of all the English forts, and captured it with sixteenhundred prisoners and a great mass of war was the greatest triumph the French arms had yetachieved in America, and it was the triumph of Frenchsoldiers and not of Indians, as was the affair with Brad-dock. It was now only necessary to maintain a smallforce at Niagara and at Frontenac, and the French rap-idly concentrated at Ticonderoga to repel a threatenedattack at that point, and if successful in this, to push
Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . ego, the most import-ant of all the English forts, and captured it with sixteenhundred prisoners and a great mass of war was the greatest triumph the French arms had yetachieved in America, and it was the triumph of Frenchsoldiers and not of Indians, as was the affair with Brad-dock. It was now only necessary to maintain a smallforce at Niagara and at Frontenac, and the French rap-idly concentrated at Ticonderoga to repel a threatenedattack at that point, and if successful in this, to pushon to Albany. Nothing more came of it than a raid bya party which surprised and captured Fort WilliamHenry at the head of Lake George, and took the Eng-lish garrison prisoners. These failures of the English arms to make any pro-gress against the French in America were very humiliat-ing to the people of England. When William Pitt cameto the head of affairs he set about vigorous English nation was in the deep waters of tribula-tion. The kingdoms of Europe were a veritable war. .yH^m^tiU. MICHIGAN AS A PROVINCE 223 camp in the midst of which stood Frederic of the intrigues of the women of the court ofLouis XV a formidable alliance had been raised againsthim. France, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, andmost of the smaller German states had joined hands tocompass his ruin, parcel out his dominions and dividethe spoils. England made common cause with Frederic,but beyond her there were few, if any, to aid. But heproved himself a sturdy fighter. Defeat or successseemed to be all one to him; from the former he ralliedwith perennial vigor, from the latter he pushed onto further triumphs. The war which was expected atthe outset to be brief, lasted seven years. It raised Prus-sia to the rank of a first-class power and established themaritime and colonial greatness of England, whileFrance issued from the contest with her power andprestige sadly dimmed. With the
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