MASSACHUSETTS AND OTHER COLONIES DURING THE SECOND
WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE, FROM THE PEACE
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, 1748, TO THE PEACE OF PARIS, 1763. 242-279
Places taken during the war between France and England
mutually restored at the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle;
Louisburg and Cape Breton restored to France, in return
for Madras restored to England 242
Boundaries in America between France and England to
be defined by a joint Commission, which could not agree 242
Encroachments of the French on the British Colonies
from 1748 to 1756; complaints of the Colonial Governors
to England; orders to them to defend their territories;
conflicts between the Colonies, French and Indians 243
England's best if not only means of protecting the
Colonies, to prevent the French from transporting soldiers
and war material to Canada; naval preparations 244
Evasive answers and disclaimers of the French
Government, with naval and military preparations 245
Braddock's unfortunate expedition; capture of French
vessels, soldiers, &c., (in a note) 247
The King's speech to Parliament on French encroachments;
convention of Colonies at Albany, and its representatives,
a year before war was declared 247
Mr. Bancroft's imputation against the British Government,
and reply to it (in a note) 247
Mr. Bancroft represents this war as merely _European_;
refuted by himself; his noble representations of the
Protestant character of the war on the part of Great
Britain and other Powers 248
Contests chiefly between the Colonists, the French,
and the Indians, from 1648 to 1654; English soldiers
under General Braddock sent to America in 1655; campaigns
actual and devised that year; Massachusetts active; Sir
William Johnson's victory over the French General, Dieskau 250
War formally declared by England and France in 1756;
French successes in 1755, 1756, and 1757 252
Parliament votes £115,000 sterling to compensate
the Colonies for expenses incurred by them 252
Arrival of the Earl of Loudon from England with troops,
as Commander-in-Chief 252
Capture of Forts Oswego and William Henry by the
French General, Montcalm 253
Dispute between the Earl of Loudon and the Massachusetts
Court, in regard to the Mutiny Act, and quartering
the troops upon the citizens 255
Alarming situation of affairs at the close of the year 1757 255
Divided counsels and isolated resources and action of
the Colonies 257
General Abercrombie arrives with more troops, and
forty German officers to drill and command regiments
to be raised in America (which gave offence to the Colonists) 257
The Governor of Virginia recommends Washington, but
his services are not recognized 257
Generals Abercrombie and Loudon at Albany hesitate
and delay, while the French generals are active and successful 258
The Earl of Loudon's arbitrary conduct in quartering
his officers and troops in Albany and New York (in a note) 258
Loudon never fought a battle in America; and in the only
battle fought by Abercrombie, he was disgracefully defeated
by Montcalm, though commanding the largest army which had
ever been assembled in America. Among the slain in this
battle was the brave General, Lord Howe, the favourite
of the army and citizens 259
The Massachusetts Court appropriate £250 sterling to
erect a monument in Westminster Abbey in honour of Lord Howe 260
Abercrombie--the last of the incompetent English
Generals--recalled, and succeeded by Lord Amherst as
Commander-in-Chief, assisted by General Wolfe, when,
under the Premiership of the elder Pitt, the whole policy
and fortunes of the war undergo a complete change 260
Colonel Bradstreet's brilliant achievement in taking
and destroying Fort Frontenac 261
Lord Amherst plans three expeditions, all of which
were successful 261
Louisburg besieged and taken; heroism of General Wolfe;
great rejoicings 262
Admiral Boscawen returns to England; Lord Amherst's
energetic movements 262
Niagara taken; Fort du Quesne taken, and called Pittsburg;
Ticonderoga and Crown Point taken; Quebec taken 263
Attempt of the French to recover Quebec 266
Parliamentary compensation to Massachusetts (in a note) 267
Montreal besieged and taken, and all Canada surrendered
to the King of Great Britain, through Lord Amherst 267
General Amherst's address to the army (in a note) 268
The war not closed; conquests in the West Indies;
troubles with the Indians; reduction of the Cherokees 269
Treaty of Paris; general rejoicings 269
Massachusetts benefited by the war 270
Moneys provided by England for the war abstracted
from England and expended in the Colonies 270
Grateful acknowledgments and avowed loyalty to England
by Massachusetts; the language and feelings of the other
Colonies the same 271