. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . men like magic, we are told; the home governmentfurnishing arms, equip-ments, and supplies; thecolonies organizing, uni-forming, and paying thetroops, with a prospect ofreimbursement. Eventsfollowed in quick succes-sion. Abercrombie failedat Ticonderoga, but Brad- street took Fort Fronte-nac; Prideaux took Ni-agara; Louisburg, CrownPoint, and even Ticon-derosfa itself fell. Oue-bee was taken in 1759,Wolfe, the victor, andMontcalm, the defeated,dying alike almost in thehour when the battle w
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . men like magic, we are told; the home governmentfurnishing arms, equip-ments, and supplies; thecolonies organizing, uni-forming, and paying thetroops, with a prospect ofreimbursement. Eventsfollowed in quick succes-sion. Abercrombie failedat Ticonderoga, but Brad- street took Fort Fronte-nac; Prideaux took Ni-agara; Louisburg, CrownPoint, and even Ticon-derosfa itself fell. Oue-bee was taken in 1759,Wolfe, the victor, andMontcalm, the defeated,dying alike almost in thehour when the battle wasdecided. Montreal soon followed; and in 1763 the Peace of Paris surrendered Canadato the English, with nearly all the French possessions eastof the Mississippi. France had already given up to Spainall her claims west of the Mississippi, and her brilliant careeras an American power was over. With her the Indian tribeswere also quelled, except that the brief conspiracy of Pontiaccame and went like the last flicker of an expiring candle;then the flame vanished, and the Hundred Years War was atan JAMES WOLFE. VIII. THE SECOND GENERATION OF ENGLISHMEN IN AMERICA. WHEN a modern American makes a pilgrimage, as I havedone, to the English village church at whose altars hisancestors once ministered, he brings away a feeling of renewedwonder at the depth of conviction which led the Puiitan-clergyto forsake their early homes. The exquisitely peaceful featuresof the English rural landscape—the old Norman church, halfruined, and in this particular case restored by aid of the Amer-ican descendants of that high-minded emigrant; the old burial-ground that surrounds it, a haunt of such peace as to makedeath seem doubly restful; the ancestral oaks; the rooks thatsoar above them ; the flocks of sheep drifting noiselessly amongthe ancient gravestones—all speak of such tranquillity as theeager American must cross the Atlantic to obtain. No Eng-lishman feels these things as the American f
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