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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 45 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
precedents of Pennsylvania. And the governors, proprietary as well as royal, reciprocally assured each other that nothing could be done in their colonies without an act of parliament. Correspondence of Morris and Sharpe. Lt. Gov. Sharpe to Shirley, 24 August, 1755. The months that followed were months of sorrow. Happily, the Catawbas at the South remained faithful; and in July, at a council of five hundred Cherokees assembled under a tree in the highlands of Western Carolina, Glen reeir cottage, while the wilderness offered land. Their numbers increased, and the colony, which had begun only as the trading station of a company, with a monopoly of the fur-trade, counted, perhaps, sixteen or seventeen thousand inhabitants. Shirley said 16,000, Raynal and Haliburton, 17,000. The Board of Trade, in 1721, put the number vaguely at nearly 3,000; these, in 1755, but for emigration to French America, would hardly have become more than 10,000; but there were more. Mascarene to
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
des. Of the enterprise against Western New York Shirley assumed the conduct. The fort at Niagarathe morasses. On the twenty-first of August, Shirley reached Oswego. Weeks passed in building boat inquiry chap. IX.} 1755. I can make, wrote Shirley, I have found the calcunations right. The nuon and separate existence. The topic which Shirley discussed with the ministry, engaged the thou the American forces this ministry had placed Shirley, a worn-out barrister, who knew nothing of wa6. With more elaborateness and authority, Shirley, Shirley to Lords of Trade, 5 January, 175Shirley to Lords of Trade, 5 January, 1756. by his military rank as commander-in-chief, taking precedence of all the governors, renewed his a personal appeal to Shirley, Dinwiddie to Shirley, 1756. he made a winter's journey to Boston. n! Shirley, who wished to make him second Shirley to Sharpe, 16 May, 1756. Halifax to Sir Charfect. On the instance of Cumberland and Fox, Shirley was superseded and ordered to return to Engla[8 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
at Albany, firmly resolved that the regular officers should command the provincials, and that the troops should be quartered on private houses. On the next day, Shirley acquainted him with the state of Oswego, advising that two battalions should be sent forward for its protection. The boats were ready; every magazine along the pe right of the river, was a large stone building surrounded by a wall flanked with four small bastions, and was commanded from adjacent heights. For its defence, Shirley had crowned a summit on the opposite bank with Fort Ontario. Against this outpost, Montcalm, on the twelfth of chap. X.} 1756. August, at midnight, opened his der, and soon made a breach in the wall. On the fourteenth, just as Montcalm was preparing to storm the intrenchments, the garrison, composed of the regiments of Shirley and Pepperell, and about sixteen hundred in number, capitulated. Forty-five perished; twelve of them in action, the rest by the Indians in attempting to escape t