The history of the Louisiana purchase . than through any soldiership NewEngland captured Louisburg in 1745, but manygloomy and anxious years followed beforeanother success was gained. The followingyear the English colonists felt with sinkinghearts that but for the interposition of pes-tilence and tempests the fleet of dAnvillewould have laid in ashes the coast towns,by way of reprisal for what had been doneat Ca^^e Breton. A few years later, aboutPresque Isle, on Lake Erie, there was a buzz ofenergy, soldiers, voyageurs, and Indians, work-ing with canoes and bateaux to force theirway to the Al
The history of the Louisiana purchase . than through any soldiership NewEngland captured Louisburg in 1745, but manygloomy and anxious years followed beforeanother success was gained. The followingyear the English colonists felt with sinkinghearts that but for the interposition of pes-tilence and tempests the fleet of dAnvillewould have laid in ashes the coast towns,by way of reprisal for what had been doneat Ca^^e Breton. A few years later, aboutPresque Isle, on Lake Erie, there was a buzz ofenergy, soldiers, voyageurs, and Indians, work-ing with canoes and bateaux to force theirway to the Alleghany. Presently the Frenchhold upon the Ohio Valley was made good bythe building of Fort Duquesne at that pointof especial vantage, the junction of the Alle-ghany and Monongahela. Braddocks enter-prise against it, in 1754, set the mark for theextreme of failure. The best arm that ever struck for France in the New World was now bared for smiting. Montcalm was in the field, and by capturing Oswego, in 1756, Niagara at the west and 18. ?^^ 4 How Louisiana Came to Be Frontenac at the nortli already being French,he made Ontario a French lake. Next yearhe captured Fort William Henry, at the south-ern end of Lake George. With the commandof the Ohio and Lake On-tario both secured, theFrench were no^Y pushingfrom the rear at the veryheart of New England, andwith the victory of Ticon-deroga the prospect be- ^came for the English hope- ^ V: / -^^ less indeed. But in 1758 came about /yf/z^Tij^??!^ *.a conjunction almost mi-raculous ; * and only by such a conjunctioncould the English colonies have been great statesman and a great soldier stoodforth together—Pitt and Wolfe—and, work-ing hand in hand, saved the day in , which had been restored to Franceby treaty, fell again, in 1758, to Wolfe; Brad-street seized Fort Frontenac; Forbes capturedFort Duquesne. In 1759 came the cou]) degrace of the Plains of Abraham, and for * W. F. Lord. 19 History of The Louisiana
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