Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . advance; six times were they held as in avice by the abattis, while the French marksmen picked themoti from the shelter of the stockade. All the men foughtwell: one Highland regiment left half its strength on theground; but the efforts of the troops were in vain. Thevictory Avas to Montcalm: with 8,600 Frenchmen he repulsed15,000 Britons, of whom about 2,000 were killed or I>L.\.\ OF FORT DUQUES
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . advance; six times were they held as in avice by the abattis, while the French marksmen picked themoti from the shelter of the stockade. All the men foughtwell: one Highland regiment left half its strength on theground; but the efforts of the troops were in vain. Thevictory Avas to Montcalm: with 8,600 Frenchmen he repulsed15,000 Britons, of whom about 2,000 were killed or I>L.\.\ OF FORT DUQUESNE, 1754. But elsewhere we were successful. Fort Duquesuc, on the Ohio, fell into our hands, and Avas renamed Pittsburg, in honour of the great Minister. A dashing raid on Frontenac (Kingston) destroyed the French naval power on Lake Louisbourg Ontario. Louisbours:, to the intense ioy of all Engli-shmen,Recovered . was aofain wrested from the French. Pitt, who after theRochefort failure had determined to a])]3oint his generalsby selection and not by seniority, confided to two young menthe conduct of this important siege. Amherst, who had madehis name in Germany, was in connnand. Wolfe, the only THE AIi3IY. 265 1784] soldier who had won renown in the Rochefort expedition,ranked second to him. Boscawen, the admiral, worked handin glove with the generals. The sailors and the soldiersshared the dangers of the enterprise, and reaped the laurelsof the capture of Louisboiirg with 5,600 prisoners. Xeverin our history was the vital necessity that England shouldcomman
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